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...DISMISSED. Vladimir Ustinov, 53, Russia's long-serving chief prosecutor, by the upper house of parliament at the request of President Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. The Federation Council voted unanimously, bar two abstentions, to remove the man who led the prosecution of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Kremlin has offered little explanation, saying only that it was part of a personnel reshuffle. Ustinov's is the latest in a spate of dismissals of high-level security and law-enforcement officials...
...followed nearly identical paths from the Harvard Lampoon to Fox Studios and the upper echelons of Hollywood writer fame...
...talents for nothing. We have a duty to perform, a service to render to the world. We all come to Harvard carrying a dream, a private ambition for ourselves. But most of us will leave our dreams behind as we move through life. Unless our dreams are to become upper-middle class professionals, we will discover that our college dreams are difficult to fulfill. There are only so many senators and congressmen in the U.S. and only so many heads of states in the world. There are only 500 CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, few major Hollywood...
Horses are designed to run. All their muscles are concentrated in the upper body, supported by long, thin legs. The massive hind muscles of a Thoroughbred drive enormous stress onto ankles not much bigger than a human...
Malemba-Nkulu is a small town on the upper reaches of the Congo River. Since late last year, the town has swelled with the arrival of some 18,000 refugees who left their villages to escape fighting between government troops and a vicious rebel outfit known as the Mai Mai. Most arrive with little more than the clothes they are wearing. Sitting outside a modest house where they rent a room, Ngoi Banza Leontine, 45, and her husband Monji Banza, 47, say they fled the fighting with their nine children just before Christmas, after the Mai Mai came to their...