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...made his name by ordering the re-invasion of Chechnya. Military commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought the war to the heart of Russia. In the past nine months, over 200 people have died in a wave of terrorist attacks, including the bombing of commuter trains in southern Russia and blasts at a Moscow rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many of the attacks are the work of suicide bombers, often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin...
...journalists, fans, the public, the Beatles - sense that all this hullabaloo represented the upswelling of the heady, tumultuous '60s, an early wave in what would become a tsunami of rock 'n' roll and social and political upheaval? I don't believe so. The decade had begun, it's true, with civil rights demonstrations and protests against the Bomb. And the Beatles' arrival came just months after the shattering event of President Kennedy's assassination. But Woodstock, the Vietnam Quagmire, the hippie phenomenon, the killings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy?all this and more was still ahead, and largely...
...outside, Schmidt and Chung are free to make up chants as they wave signs for Dean...
...wisdom of the Democrats' using classic populism ("the people vs. the powerful") as a strategy to win the presidency [Jan. 12]. I say more power to them. It is the common people who work, pay taxes and fight our wars. Klein noted that the by-products of the 1890s' wave of populism were a progressive income tax, antitrust legislation and other reforms. Dean is proposing the same type of progressive political, social and economic agenda. ONOFRIO PERZIA LeRoy...
...ironic silver lining in the current wave of violence is that it offers persuasive evidence in support of Washington's argument that elections can't be held before its July 1 deadline for handing power to an Iraqi provisional government. The leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority have rejected the U.S. plan to select such a government at regional caucuses controlled by its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council. Instead, the country's most powerful spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has demanded democratic elections, and rather than put itself at odds with a pro-democracy movement among Iraq's majority community...