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...History According to the Kremlin" now being taught in classrooms, according to which Josef Stalin, the greatest mass murderer in history, was a patriot who did what had to be done to defeat fascism. And he also examines the Kremlin's repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install a pipeline connecting the Caspian...
Cambridge’s increasing affluence may threaten residents who want to continue living in the city after retirement, officials said at a roundtable discussion yesterday. Clifford Cook, planning information manager for the Community Development Department, said that as Cambridge becomes more affluent, it becomes more difficult for elderly residents—who are often on fixed incomes—to afford rising rents and other costs. Cook added that the city is becoming more socioeconomically diverse because the number of low-income residents—who often live in public housing—has remained constant, while higher-income...
...life in a repressive unnamed country. Dragomán presents the reader with a world in which Djata’s father is taken away without notice, his house is entered without a warrant, his friend breaks his ankle in order to avoid going to school, and principals threaten that any children not in their seats will “be impaled and hung in the schoolyard.” Djata, of course, does not realize the totality of the situation; it is up to the reader to fit together the facts and realize the true terrifying nature of Djata?...
These riots threaten to be a harbinger of a growing global problem, with its own share of violence and deaths in high-population, low-income countries...
...electoral threat posed by the Sadr movement to the main Shi'ite parties in the current government - the Islamic Supreme Council, and Maliki's own Dawa Party - raises the political incentive for the government to take on the Sadrists before October's vote. But the consequences of the confrontation threaten Iraq's stability. "It is possible that the religious authorities could contain this crisis," said Kurdish MP Bukhari Abdallah Khudur. "If they don't, it will only get worse as elections approach...