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...stop the media circus," says the magazine's publisher, Leonid Bershidsky. The next issue of the business magazine - the Russian edition of U.S.-based Forbes, which Klebnikov launched just three months ago - is set to appear on time next week, but will carry little or no coverage of the affair, Bershidsky says. But he's modestly optimistic that the killing will be solved; members of the country's ruling élite are "pretty shaken" by the murder, he explains. Few share his optimism. Other than the fact that Klebnikov's murder was a contract killing, nothing is clear - not even...
...always been a Yankees fan, but my real love affair with the Bronx Bombers began during the 1996 World Series. I remember watching Wade Boggs ride around Yankee stadium on the back of a horse to the cheers of 57,000 screaming fans after the Yankees beat Atlanta in Game 6 to win their first World Series since 1979. I was hooked...
...Kremlin suspected him of buying his own political bloc. Khodorkovsky may pay a high price for his political ambitions. "He will not walk the streets of Moscow for the next five years," predicts an international financial specialist. But Russia could end up paying a high price, too. The Yukos affair has sparked questions in the West about Russia's commitment to a market economy, not to mention other basic tenets of capitalism, like property rights. But the crisis is also coming to a head at a time when the Russian miracle is beginning to lose its luster. At home, even...
...SPENT YEARS INVESTIGATING WHETHER PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD LIED ABOUT AN AFFAIR WHILE IN OFFICE, AMONG OTHER THINGS. GIVEN THE INVESTIGATIONS UNDER WAY INTO INTELLIGENCE PRIOR TO 9/11 AND THE IRAQ WAR, DOESN'T YOUR PURSUIT NOW SEEM EXCESSIVE...
...supported the story, however. Numerous white journalists in Jefferson's time reported the story and believed it to be true. Jefferson's fellow Founding Father John Adams, who had seen Hemings' beauty firsthand (she was known as "Dashing Sally"), also seemed to believe that Jefferson had had an affair with her and called it a "natural and almost unavoidable consequence of that foul contagion in the human character--Negro slavery." But even today, several Jefferson descendants interviewed by TIME said they could not believe that he would become sexually involved with a slave, even one as young and beautiful...