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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...justifiably concludes that Yeltsin was already a rambunctious politician before Gorbachev promoted him to head the Moscow City Party in 1985. Yeltsin was like a bull in a china shop in the Soviet capital. As Colton points out, Gorbachev had ignored warnings that his protégé would smash all the crockery as both of them pursued reform. Plenty of Yeltsin's victims volunteered their testimony for the book. Their unanimous verdict is that he deserved the sacking he endured in 1987 at Gorbachev's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Yeltsin: Not Your Average Statesman | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...game. Each session unveils more of the Next Gen GTA's small, wonderful new details. The gun targeting is more responsive. You can drag people behind your moving car. The world seems impossibly rich and detailed. If you get into a really fast head-on collision, you smash through your windshield and roll across the pavement. And the new explosions are more beautiful than sunsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Theft Auto IV: The 20.06% Review | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

...labor camp anyone who, like Djata’s father, dares to raise his voice against the regime, the school’s soccer coach, Gica, resorts to violence to get things done. Coach Gica tells his team that “after the game he’d smash everyone’s ankles with a crowbar” if they don’t win the very important upcoming match, “[He] even showed us the crowbar, and he took a swipe with it at one of the planks in the fence, the crowbar tore right...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Violence Reigns Supreme in 'White King' | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...quiet street in the small, high-desert town of Playas, N.M., just north of the Mexican border. Suddenly it is alive with action. A heavily armed SWAT team races toward two adobe houses where terrorists are holed up, according to reports from a confidential informant. The troopers smash down the door of one, blow open two doors of the other and disappear inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Playas | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

While some teams preferred to chop or smash avocados, Miles, who is an inactive Crimson photographer, said that her team had used their hands...

Author: By Laura C. Mckiernan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Guac and Roll in Lowell | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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