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...combination of his business deals and his political ambitions prompted the siloviki to press for action against Khodorkovsky. The Russian state is too weak to accept what those in power see as a challenge of this type. And then, despite open calls for his arrest, Khodorkovsky played chicken, refusing to follow the example of other oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky and leave the country...
...hottest in the world. The White House had forgiven Russia over its opposition to the war in Iraq, and the outlook appeared rosier than it had been for years. The trouble is, in a system where there's no clear definition of private property, a pliable legal infrastructure and weak political institutions, elections are catalysts for crises - they have been since the fall of the Soviet Union...
...substantial disagreement over how a constitution should be adopted - the key Shiite religious authorities have insisted that only a democratically elected body can legitimately adopt a constitution - much less what it should contain. Accelerating the timetable for elections, some analysts warn, runs the risk of empowering either a weak central government without demonstrable popular support, while others suggest a rush to the polls could work to the advantage of radical demagogues such as the Shiite militant Moqtada al-Sadr...
...sporadic prostate cancer, seen in men older than 60 or without a family history, the link between BMI and cancer risk was weak and not statistically significant...
...enormous amount of sexual violence that permeates our society. We need only open our eyes to see that it is ubiquitous. Every day in the newspaper, we can find at least one story about a man killing his girlfriend or wife. Ads are filled with degrading images of weak, vacant women whose only value appears to be complete sexual availability to any man who wants her. Even at Harvard, The Crimson recently reported the fourth sexual assault on campus in two weeks (News, “Student Groped Near Campus...