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Frightened by the fatal poisoning of influential banker Ivan Kivelidi earlier this month, Russia's nouveaux riche businessmen held a protest in front of the former KGB headquarters in Moscow to protest the slayings of nearly 50 of their contemporaries in the past year. Arriving in chauffeured armored limousines and surrounded by burly bodyguards, the businessmen demanded a government crackdown on crime...
...arrest of Wu, 58, is itself the latest source of conflict between the two countries. The son of a Shanghai banker, he was imprisoned in 1960 for criticizing the Soviet Union. After being released, immigrating to the U.S. in 1985 and becoming a citizen, he embarked on a crusade to publicize the nightmare of China's prison system. Using a hidden camera, he once sneaked into a Chinese tanning factory and filmed naked prisoners standing in vats of toxic chemicals. Last year, while he posed as a wealthy American searching for a kidney for a relative, the BBC filmed transplant...
...rate cuts by the Fed," explainedTIME's John Greenwald, "and that's not what they wanted to hear." Though Greenspan just last month expressed doubt in the economy's strength, today he called the outlook "encouraging, despite the inevitable risks." Noting positive trends in various economic indicators, the central banker also cited diminishing financial turmoil in Mexico as contributing to improved U.S. economic growth...
Both these groups are predominantly Republican, as is a third organization run by Charles Kelly, a retired Washington banker and former minor official in the Eisenhower Administration. His main effort is to talk to business friends about giving money to a Powell campaign, to preach the Powell gospel to influential Republicans and to organize a shadow national committee. None of this is big league enough to represent a real political force, but that's not surprising given that they have no real candidate to support...
...crew members, making sure they have enough money for lunch, enough passes for the Open, enough rest for what he calls "the war" -- when 156 golfers and 30,000 fans a day invade Shinnecock. A 1975 Dartmouth graduate, Smith thought he might become a teacher or a banker. "My father never meant for me to inherit his job. He sent me to Dartmouth to see the world. I saw it, then realized this is what I love...