Monday's opposition rally in Moscow drew many of the young middle-class Muscovites who have turned out by the tens of thousands for four previous demonstrations in this winter's bone-chilling cold.

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This winter it rounded up 100 megawatts in New England in anticipation of a cold spell coupled with high natural gas prices.

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This was a cold winter, everyone battened into woollen layers and readily excused from dawdling in the open, and Zwelish and his expectant young wife were more and more like figures in a snow globe, viewable but uncontactable from the human realm.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan