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...last prime-time newscast before the raid neatly highlighted the chasm between the smooth theory and the turbulent reality of Putin's Russia. NTV has shone a spotlight on this divide, while state networks feign not to see it. The Kremlin would clearly like to turn NTV's spotlight off. The first news item was the return home from a Swiss jail of Pavel Borodin, the high-ranking Russian official who a few years ago found a Kremlin job for the then out-of-work Vladimir Putin. Borodin, who is being investigated in Switzerland on money-laundering charges, had been...
...when the Aqsa intifada erupted last fall, Hezbollah's leaders saw a chance to boost their prestige in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to expand their brand of Islamic revolution to the gates of Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest city. They aren't keen to share the spotlight with Hamas. In the past few months, Hezbollah canceled the training of Hamas operatives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and in Iran. Hezbollah is still training Palestinians, but when it sends them back to the Gaza Strip or West Bank, they'll be working for Hezbollah, not Hamas. A source...
...inaugural game between Mia Hamm's Washington Freedom and Brandi Chastain's Bay Area Cyber Rays. Yesterday at Ohiri Field, the Harvard women's soccer team served as the final tune-up for the Boston Breakers, one of six WUSA teams waiting for their turn in the spotlight this weekend...
...where Jane Swift is truly demonstrating “Her Excellency” is in bringing the work-family debate to the spotlight and highlighting the inequality that women face in this type of situation. Although Swift is likely the first woman to be pregnant while serving as a state governor, plenty of men in office have seen their wives gives birth. British Prime Minister Tony Blair won kudos for, gasp, taking a week off to attend to his family after his wife gave birth...
We’re lucky, in a sense, for the bizarre series of events that brought Jane Swift, and all her challenges, to the spotlight. Swift is doing a big service to society by taking on the responsibilities of governing a state and having children. Her efforts will illustrate that it is not impossible to reconcile politics, and work in general, with raising a family...