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Becoming the first Harvard student to appear on television's most popular game show, Quincy House resident Richard Cooper '01 won prize money on ABC's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" last week...
...spying in Moscow may reflect the blurring of lines in the post-Cold War twilight, but staging his arrest as a media event may be intended to send a clear message that the Yeltsin-era bonhomie between the erstwhile enemies is over. An American private citizen, identified by ABC News as retired Navy captain Edmond Pope, was arrested Thursday on charges of espionage, and is awaiting trial in the notorious Lefortovo prison. A Russian associate was arrested along with him, in a swoop on what Moscow's Federal Security Service (FSB) says was a spying operation on an advanced Russian...
Putin told Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline last Friday that he was bringing in, as investigators, former KGB colleagues "who are untarnished and have no connection with corruption." Still, the jury is out on the level of Putin's anticorruption zeal. Two prominent members of the Family, Dyachenko and Yumashev, are actively involved in his election campaign. But clouds seem to be thickening over the head of Berezovsky, the most unpopular and pugnacious of the so-called oligarchs. A belief is growing among Russia's political and business elite that Putin wants to destroy Berezovsky's political power. There...
...Thursday - Lazaro Gonzalez and his family appear to remain defiant. The only circumstance under which they'd surrender the boy, his daughter Marisleysis told CNN Tuesday, was if Elian's father came to their home in Miami and the boy wanted to leave with him. On the latter point, ABC announced, in the face of fierce criticism over its Elian Gonzalez interview, that it had excised the portion in which he expresses his desire to remain in the U.S. The decision had been taken "so as not to take a position in this highly charged political atmosphere," said ABC News...
...ever-cost depravity of America's media culture inevitably made Elian Gonzalez the most sought-after interview since Monica Lewinsky. But the fact that the distant relatives who are trying to keep the six-year-old in Miami against the wishes of his father gave the go-ahead for ABC's Diane Sawyer spend two days with him late last week - the first installment of her interview was broadcast Monday - may be a sign of desperation. The Miami relatives had long resisted the temptation, knowing full well how badly Middle America might judge their forcing a bereaved and confused child...