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Most importantly, Russia lacks a clear political identity. Beyond its economic and strategic concerns, Russia doesn't know what it wants to be. This is an ideological, even ontological lassitude. The reason the postcommunist world is so unstable is not that Russia is on the verge of repatriating old turf. It's that Russia is navigating between two ideas of Russia: its former Soviet self and its current shadow of that former self - a cartoonish, hopelessly upside-down mythology versus a dispiriting reality. Russia will not transcend this dichotomy until it begins building a truly original future instead of trying...
Captains La Fiura, Scholl and O’Donnell’s leadership has been a palpable force all season and Widbin has made his mark on the turf scoring eight goals and offering up seven assists, leaving him 6th in the overall point total...
...another game of “Risk” begins just in time for reading period. After last spring’s success with the cyberspace-adapted board game, the College Events Board (CEB) is sponsoring round two of a campus-wide Risk tournament. The game, called CEB Turf, is managed by Michael F. Ayoub ’10 and Kevin M. Mee ’10. Despite little publicity, there are already about 1,000 students signed up on the Web site, ready to engage in cyberspace combat. CEB Turf administrator Andrew C. Fong ’07 said...
...time of their capture, all three men had been working for Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor, which continues to pay the families their salaries. Former Grumman pilots have criticized the company for using single-engine planes over such dangerous turf. In March 2003, three Grumman employees died in a single-engine-plane crash during a search for the hostages. (The U.S. now requires that twin-engine aircraft be used there.) But the hostages' families ask why the Bush Administration didn't provide more military backup on the contractors' Colombian missions. "Did they really never think this sort of thing could...
...which carried a $60 fine, been enforced. The new, harsher taco truck law, and a promise of stricter enforcement, was inspired by the needs of businesses and residents in East L.A., says County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who proposed the regulations. "It all stems from an ongoing turf battle between the vendors and the merchants," Molina says. "The businesses don't appreciate [the taco trucks] down in front. And some of the residents consider it annoying to have the trucks out until midnight or two in the morning. We're trying to create a better and more livable community...