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Yeltsin toiled diligently to bring the capital's food supply and distribution system under control. He traveled the city by subway -- unheard of for a Politburo member -- and commuted from distant suburbs to check on transportation conditions for workers. He would even barge into meat stores to find out who was getting the best cuts. These shock tactics delighted ordinary Muscovites but infuriated the party "Mafia," an old-boy network of distribution officials and real-life gangsters...
...blasts signaled not only an intensification of the organization's drive to oust the British from Northern Ireland but also a return to the tactics of the 1970s when civilian targets, including train and subway stations, were hit indiscriminately. That strategy was abandoned after a 1983 car bomb outside Harrods department store killed six people and caused a wave of revulsion against the I.R.A. But authorities fear that frustrated hard-liners have once again decided that bloody activity on the mainland is a far more effective way to prove that British rule in Ireland is untenable...
Frank Harper is one of two Harvardians who once a month swap backpacks and briefcases for funky hats, bustiers, MTV baseball caps and New York City subway tokens. Harper and J.J. Talvy '91 are both regulars on Club MTV, the video music video channel's hip hot daily dance show...
Hundreds of partially soaked citizens, many of whom were taking the day off from work, greeted morning commuters emerging from the Government Center MBTA subway stop. The crowd appeared to be a loose coalition of groups. Some showed intense anti-American sentiment while others called for supporting American troops...
...There was standing plan to meet in San Fransisco as soon as war was declared," Pleston said. "There is also an on going protest at the subway station...