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...deal given to a Swiss-based intermediary company partly owned by unnamed Ukrainian investors increased concerns for some. "What has happened is a major scam," Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former Ukraine Premier who is expected to do well in parliamentary elections in March, told Time. The Russian bullying tactic may have lasted only a few days, but its effects are still coming down the pipeline...
...judge found their story not credible,” Garcia said. “It was just sort of a scare tactic...
Hastrup’s accusation that the solidarity among Harvard minority groups and allies is only a publicity tactic, and not a genuine initiative to denounce hate crimes at Harvard, is unfounded and unfair. It is important that students, and most importantly minorities, have the ability to publicly send the message that every student has a right to be free from violence and harassment. It is also important that the University endorse this message for it to uphold its academic mission. To claim that hateful incidents on campus have no relation to the discrimination belittles the experiences of hate crime...
...open to the Senate’s version of the act. According to Burden, leaving the renewal of the Patriot Act to days before its expiration has been characterized as political brinksmanship intended to pressure moderates with some reservations to pass the measure. If so, Burden said, the tactic clearly backfired with the failure of the cloture vote. But the increased pressure now may be exactly what Congress needs to resolve controversy on aspects of the Patriot Act, Burden said. Like many students, Burden said, Congress needs deadlines to get things done. “This week is sort...
...demonstration’s organizers. That largely unprofessional cast performs admirably in the film. Watkins wrote little of the actors’ dialogue beforehand. Like fellow Brit filmmaker Mike Leigh, Watkins prefers to give his performers scenarios and allow them to improvise their speech accordingly. This tactic pays off best in the film’s tribunal scenes: the actors’ performances are unforced and wholly convincing. No one is guilty of self-consciously “acting.”However, neither the film’s excellent DVD transfer, its illuminating extra features, nor its guileless acting...