Word: westing
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...West cheered a second great victory over communism, the oligarchs got even richer and a lot more powerful ? and Boris Yeltsin?s political survival became intimately linked with their fate. What the current crop of financial scandals points to is that in the '90s rush to exorcise the ghost of Stalinism, the distinctions between government, legitimate business and organized crime became dangerously blurred in Russia. "Crime, politics and business in Russia feed off each other," says Meier. "Russia?s huge criminal organizations were born, and continue to thrive, because of their access to political power...
...Marcus of Lena's said yesterday that no Harvard teams had entered so far, though they have received entries from MIT, Boston University, Boston College, West Point, the Naval Academy, the Marine Corps and the Air Force...
While Bradley has attracted the support of a number of prominent African-Americans, like Harvard's Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74, the black electorate--traditionally progressive--has largely ignored...
...willing by arresting three senior leaders of the anti-peace-process Hamas organization, King Abdullah?s government will stop short of a full-scale confrontation with Hamas. "Jordan itself has no problem with Hamas, and this clampdown is being undertaken on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "But Jordan will always put its own stability above the interests of Israel and of Arafat, and Hamas enjoys the support of the man in the street in Jordan. There?s a lot of opposition in Jordan to normalizing relations with Israel, and the government will...
...RAID Mosquitoes carrying St. Louis encephalitis besieged New York City last week, infecting up to 60 people and causing three deaths. What's puzzling--and frightening--is how the mosquito-borne virus got to Gotham; until now, it's been found mostly in the South and West. To battle the bugs, New York has been aerial-spraying malathion, using bug repellent and keeping windows shut...