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Three years into the country's heart-wrenching drive to reinvent itself -- and hours after a hard-line coup attempt -- Russians found themselves last week swapping expressions of political drift. "It could have been worse," has long been a favorite conversation clincher among Russians. Last week it was also true...
Maybe they're right. But few things beat just sitting in front of a big screen, staring at this vision of a decimated Los Angeles, watching Harrison Ford get beat up.
In the midst of a hectic class schedule in which every course gets lotteried off to seniors, I take solace in that mini tin can with the smiling, sunglasses-wearing, blue fish staring up at me.
But they're not. Witness the experience of British engineer David Rowbottom and his Australian cousin Tania Miller, who were entranced by the promise of dramatic vistas in Turkey until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping...
Carjackings are not the only car crimes that have exploded over the past few years. What police call smash-and-grabs are also considered easy, risk-free crimes. A swing of a baseball bat probably won't shatter a car window, but the impact of a porcelain spark plug will...