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| Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST Correction |
| In my August 25 post I made a mistake. |
| Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST Empire of the czar |
| If you want to read something truly alarming about Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia, read Anders Aslund's report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Aslund, who has been writing perceptively about Russia since the late 1980s, says that Putin since the March 2004 election has succeeded in removing all centers of power but his own, and that he has made one public blunder after another—launching the Khodorovsky prosecution, botching the Beslan school hostage seizure, intervening unsuccessfully in the election in Ukraine and ineffectively reforming social benefits. He writes that "the positive status quo ante can hardly be restored" and speculates that Putin may be forced to step down before his term ends in 2008, by a coup of KGB veterans or by a popular uprising. |
| Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST NOLA |
| New Orleans has survived Katrina, it seems, and thank goodness. There's lots of damage, but a direct hit might well have destroyed the city, as the National Weather Service projected. We Americans tend to think we can handle any contingency. But sometimes nature can inflict destruction we cannot prevent. San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake 99 years ago. New Orleans evidently narrowly escaped destruction by a hurricane today. |
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| Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:23:05 GMT Katrina Floods Gulf States, Killing 55 (AP) |
AP - Announcing itself with shrieking, 145-mph winds, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans on Monday, submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs, swamping Mississippi's beachfront casinos and killing at least 55 people.
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| Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:31:16 GMT Hurricane Katrina Rips Superdome Roof (AP) |
AP - They lined up by the thousands to get inside, clutching meager belongings and crying children. A few hours later, the power went out, turning the building into a muggy mess. Then part of the roof blew off.
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| Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:38:14 GMT Sunnis Face Dilemma on Iraq Constitution (AP) |
AP - Rebuffed in the constitution deliberations, Sunni Arabs now face a dilemma: boycott the Oct. 15 referendum on a new charter and hand the Shiites a landslide victory, or take part in a vote that demographics suggest they'll lose.
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