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...Kahn tells TIME. "I didn't know which Britney was going to show up because of how crazy the previous year had been." His worries were quickly erased. "There she was on set, watching the choreographer, bobbing her head to the music. Baby steps. She was getting her head back into it." He says Spears was noticeably "quieter" on set and worked on a tightly structured schedule. "This wasn't your typical 30-hour video workday," says Kahn. "They gave me eight hours a day for two days. She was getting her legs back...
...Joined the Army at 18, just before the start of the Korean War, and wrote medical reports. Later became a police officer in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas. Says that in Washington he learned to never back down from a fight, earning the department's "most assaulted officer" title in 1957. In Las Vegas, he once pulled over Elvis Presley and a female companion on a motorcycle. (Read "Opponents of the Border Fence Look to Obama...
...brazenness of the hit on Ivankov suggests that Russia's mobsters are acting with greater impunity and disregard for the law. The government now faces a major test: it needs to back up its new laws with determined action, or risk losing control of the streets to the ever-more-powerful mafia clans for good...
...With Ivankov's killing, too, the conditions are ripe for an all-out war between the Oniani and Usoyan factions, authorities say. Police say the tensions between the two men date back to 2007, two years after Oniani returned to Russia from Spain when police broke up his racketeering operations there. As Oniani sought to re-establish himself in Moscow, he started encroaching on Usoyan's territory, and Usoyan's top lieutenants began turning up dead. One of them, Alek Minalyan, an Armenian allegedly in charge of extorting money from construction firms working on projects for the 2014 Winter Olympics...
...effectiveness of gagging orders has been eroding for years, pointing to the banning of a book called Spycatcher, written by former British secret agent Peter Wright, in Britain in 1985. "The book went on sale in America and in Australia, and everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people it's being communicated by aren...