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Maskhadov had been elected President of Chechnya in a somewhat dubious but mostly fair 1997 election, after successfully leading the Chechen resistance movement from 1994-1996. After his electoral victory, however, he was unable to establish an effective state and the country disintegrated into a Somalia-like state of warlordism. In response to a Chechen warlord’s invasion of Dagestan, and Chechnya’s general state of lawlessness, Russian military forces invaded in 1999. Putin left Russian military forces free to violate internationally accepted norms of warfare, presumably with the hope that ferocious and indiscriminate...
...preliminary, but researchers believe they can use rTMS at the very least to develop a new understanding of how different parts of the brain are wired together and what goes wrong when some of its signals get crossed. What they cannot do at the moment, somewhat to their embarrassment, is explain why magnetic stimulation might ease anyone's suffering...
...last piece before the intermission, Robert Russell Bennet’s “Suite of Old American Dances,” was charming but too slow, making this “bright-eyed tune” somewhat lackluster...
With a book deal, a blank check from the editors of Rolling Stone to write whatever he wants, and a political mind to rival Jon Stewart’s, Rees can most definitely count himself among the elite of the underground humor world. His strips, though somewhat tired in their old age, still manage to capture the same fury that made his first ones so successful...
...Frist couldn't escape his Washington responsibilities. A woman attending the dinner demanded to know how when he would invoke the "nuclear option" that would stop Democrats from filibustering judicial appointments. And when Frist returned, he found himself somewhat outflanked on Social Security. Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican senator who is also weighing a 2008 run, had introduced the first Social Security plan in Congress this year. Hagel repeatedly noted in a press conference Tuesday that he was "first," and there's no doubt voters in Iowa will hear that too in coming years...