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MOSCOW: A high-profile tax raid by Russia on its leading tax defaulter, Gazprom, was calculated to impress the IMF, says TIME correspondent Andrew Meier. But even if it accomplishes that, the international body is unlikely to cut the big check Russia so desperately needs. "The IMF seems bent on playing high-stakes brinkmanship," says Meier, "extorting vows to slash the budget and strip the fat before it will agree to bail Russia out." But Russia's condition is deteriorating rapidly...
...official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment industry in those countries as by any genuine fear of being culturally swamped," says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "It's basically protectionism." No surprise then that the major initiative discussed was a proposed international news TV network to rival CNN. But CNN already has global rivals such as the BBC World Service, and overthrowing Mickey and Mickey D's may take a little more than hockey and Mike...
...falls to another turnaround pro, Jerry Levin, 54, to pick up the pieces, and few expect fast answers. "The business is in lousy shape," says Andrew Shore, an analyst at Paine Webber. Shore, a Dunlap critic who recently baited Chainsaw Al by publicly asking him to work for $1 a year until the stock recovered, pegs any turnaround at two years...
...Andrew K. Mandel '00 is in Japan this summer, spreading the joys of subject-verb agreement and requesting "Opposites Attract" from the English-speaking radio station just...
...time for Discovery to head home, and every nook and cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...