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...ultimate symbol of state-sponsored corruption and cynical manipulation of power is the Yeltsin "Family." It includes Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko; his onetime chief of staff Valentin Yumashev; and a number of powerful financiers, including Boris Berezovsky. The group played a major role in engineering Yeltsin's retirement and Putin's rise. And though corruption allegations against the Family have disappeared from most front pages, the heat is still on. A Swiss prosecutor recently told a Russian newspaper that relatives and associates of Yeltsin's remain under investigation in his country...
...role in the kidnapping of a Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara, who had been baptized by a Catholic servant. Despite an international outcry, Pius acted as a surrogate father to the child, who later became a priest. Italian Jews are nonplussed. "The beatification of Pius IX exalts a symbol that still represents a wound," says community leader Amos Luzzatto. David Kertzer, who wrote a book on the kidnapping, sees "a mixed message, asking for pardon [as the Pope did last week] and then beatifying Pius IX." Jesuit Giacomo Martina, author of a lengthy biography on Pius IX, might be expected...
...award is important as a symbol for female leaders on campus," said Redmond, who added that the selection committee made a good choice in Fazili...
...almost 15 years after Zack's reign, all of those jealous viewers are living out their childhood fantasies--with a vengeance. At Bayside, Zack's cell was a sure symbol of status. Nobody thought, however, that shiny Nokias and compact Motorolas would ever be anything but a modern means of communication and another way to look cool. Nowadays, the Qualcomm QCP-1960, among other impressive cellular instruments, causes the onset of malignant brain tumors. With excessive use, of course...
...master of color would make a difference if they were a great master," he says. "It would be a great symbol, so I certainly hope that it will be considered as part of the criteria, but not as the most important, or even any of the most important...