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Yeltsin has positioned himself in the role Gorbachev formerly played so well: supporter of the common folk. When thousands of coal miners went on strike in 1989, Gorbachev associated himself with their fight against management and emerged as a hero to the working class. Miners are striking in parts of the Ukraine and Siberia once again, but their leaders have turned to Yeltsin. Last week the Russian leader met with strike coordinators, who declared their full support for Yeltsin's political position and "readiness to support it with all possible nonviolent methods." Most miners are asking for higher wages...
...getting out to an early lead. And Vance came through at the plate, going 3-for-4 with an RBI. He was 6-for-8 on the day and 11-for-16 on the weekend.Unger, who was credited with the win, allowed four earned runs on 10 hits while striking out four and walking two. He quickly settled into a rhythm after allowing three two-out doubles in the first.“There’s nine innings in a game,” he said. “You can’t let two first-inning runs...
...variety of looks would keep the BC hitters off-balance. “If I’m a hitter and I’m seeing a different guy every time that can be a little bit of an adjustment, especially if they’re throwing first pitch strikes.” Walsh said, “Even though it was pre-planned, I was thinking it was going work.” It almost did work. The combined efforts of the Harvard pitchers kept the Eagles scoreless in all but two innings. Junior Brad Unger started the game...
...Still, officials acknowledge that stitching together a regional alliance of radical groups allied with al-Qaeda remains a longer-term ambition of the extremists, hoping to increase their striking power and extend it into Europe. One sign of that was the announcement, last September, by al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, that Algeria's radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) had joined bin Laden's organization. After renaming itself al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group quickly began targeting foreign interests in Algeria and warned that attacks abroad would follow. AQIM then used...
When Tomoyo Nonaka took over Sanyo, the struggling Japanese electronics maker, in June 2005, she already had one strike against her. Nonaka was a female CEO in a business culture that is overwhelmingly male. A more timid executive would have charted a cautious course, focusing on slashing costs at a company that lost $1.6 billion in its 2005 fiscal year. But Nonaka, a former TV journalist, instead announced a bold plan to transform Sanyo into a leader in environmentally friendly products. "The 21st century is about turning away from oil to alternate forms of energy," Nonaka, 52, told TIME shortly...