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...taste of the paper's editorial outlook, just talk to Dmitri Muratov, its editor in chief. "Putin has created the largest, richest bureaucracy in the world, and the funds have been sucked out of society." Muratov calls the siloviki--the strong-arm factions that make up much of the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the secret police--a "business, whose only concern is hoarding money...
...Pearl Cornioley--now hailed as one of Britain's greatest wartime secret agents--parachuted into France after a few months of training with Britain's Special Operations Executive, a group that welcomed women as potentially less suspect than men. Once there, Cornioley posed as a cosmetics saleswoman and helped arm and organize the Resistance. She commanded soldiers who damaged German communications and presided over the surrender of 18,000 German troops. Nominated for a Military Cross medal after the war, she could not receive it because she was female. She later won honors, including the title of Commander...
...close.“We told him that because they play a lot of zone, we felt that Alek could be a weapon for us, and he definitely was in the first half,” Amaker said. “He gave us a huge shot in the arm, a huge lift, and gave us life and put us in position to where we were within striking distance. I just thought it was very positive that he was able to do that for our team.”“He’s just an unbelievable shooter...
...will now become Facebook’s chief operating officer. While at Google, Sandberg led Adwords—the advertising unit that accounts for the lion’s share of Google’s annual revenue—and headed the development of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “Sheryl was a valued member of the Google team and we wish her well in her new endeavors,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an e-mailed statement. According to a Facebook press release, Sandberg will be in charge of sales, marketing, and business...
...Every candidate for a party's third straight term in the White House needs a moment to define himself away from his two-term predecessor. Bush's father waited until the G.O.P. convention to break with Reagan, rolling out his controversial "kinder, gentler" slogan. Gore simply kept Clinton at arm's length from early in his quest, hoping he'd take the hint. Both of those aspiring successors were dealing with incumbents whose numbers were still relatively healthy - Bush's, by contrast, are stuck in the low thirties and not likely to go anywhere with the economy worsening. Whatever help...