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...even if it has to remain buried, anger is not far from the surface. A young woman standing outside the Lyudinovo emporium rocks her infant son's stroller and, looking around nervously, gives vent to her worries. She's still on maternity leave, but had hoped to return to work soon. That's now looking impossible. What's more, prices keep going up, including her rent, she complains, and she's had to pay a $200 bribe to get her son into a local nursery. "You tell that to Putin and Medvedev," she says angrily, and then worries that...
...disputed building - the Israeli police and military averted the first threat. The eviction went off relatively smoothly, although eight people were slightly injured, one of them a police officer who had acid thrown in his face by a settler militant. But the extremists delivered on their promise to vent their rage on Palestinian innocents. (See images of West Bank settlers battling eviction...
...always that one kid who jumps in against the doors and steps on everyone’s feet. It’s crazy. People are pushing and spilling their coffee and girls are crying.” For some students, the shuttle bus is a place to vent their pent-up frustration. Flood recalls, “One time there was some girl who just missed the shuttle, and the driver shut the doors on her. She was so mad that she literally ran after the shuttle the whole way in, screaming and banging on the windows and doors every...
...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Counter has had a curiously strong record for ethnic vituperation. In 1980, writing to The Crimson to protest a film screening, he played on anti-German stereotypes extensively, though no one involved was German. Counter used the same venue to vent his spleen on the Jews in 1992, in response to bad press about the Harvard Foundation from The Crimson. In the letter he blames “Crimson writers active in Hillel” for fomenting these complaints. He apologized for the latter remarks...
...kitchen of Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage, the famed Harvard Square hamburger joint. Bartley’s general manager, Billy Bartley, said it was the first significant fire in the 48 years that the restaurant has been open. The fire started in the hood vent at around 10:45 a.m. on Saturday and Bartley said it is unclear when the restaurant will re-open. According to Deputy Fire Chief Steven G. Leonard, in most restaurants the hood vent releases smoke to the roof—but not at Bartley’s. “Inspectional services will...