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Vladimir Putin tries hard to convince the world that Russian business has changed since the wild '90s, when it was synonymous with dodgy privatization and contract killings. These days he wants to depict the Russian corporate world as dynamic, modern - and predictable. That image shattered last week when the Kremlin went head to head with Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 40-year-old proprietor of the oil giant Yukos and the richest man in Russia. The markets dropped abruptly, and polite discourse was infused with language reminiscent of The Godfather. The operation against Khodorkovsky, pundits and Yukos supporters...
...straitjacket on borrowing for the third straight year, France and Germany last week all but admitted their economies wouldn't fit the tight rules in 2004. In the U.S., sweeping tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq brought a slide from surplus - that is so mid-'90s! - to a record $455 billion deficit in just three years, with the likelihood of further borrowing next year. With the U.K. government having declared record holes in its public finances last week, why would anyone bother to observe that fusty old Growth and Stability Pact? Ian Stewart, chief European economist at Merrill...
...giant - all year long, pixel-pushing superheroes have been smashing their way across cinema screens. In Ireland, a quieter kind of crime fighter is pulling in the crowds: Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin, the Irish reporter who went head to head with Dublin's drug barons in the mid-'90s and paid for it with her life. Veronica Guerin - the second film about the iconic journalist - follows her as she digs for the source of the city's drug supply. Hardheaded and hungry for a story, Guerin is threatened, shot at and severely beaten before finally fingering untouchable kingpin John...
...noise from the big blue tent at Bethesda Rugby Club is enough to fill this normally serene valley in north Wales. It's the first hometown show in five years for the Super Furry Animals, the most eclectic and technicolor band to emerge from the guitar-drenched mid-'90s. They're here to commemorate the centennial of the longest-ever British strike, when 3,000 local quarrymen walked off the job for three years. But the group isn't all about politics; after all, two yetis play kettledrums during a rendition of Mountain People. In the early days, the five...
...name was Compay Segundo, the legendary singer and guitarist whose life had been long enough to accommodate two breathtaking rags-to-riches cycles: born poor, he became a celebrated musician in the '20s whose phone stopped ringing in the '60s until the late '90s, when he suddenly became the most famous (beardless) Cuban alive...