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...brass from the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and Interpol. Though counterfeit euros pose no threat to Bulgaria's economy (the country is not joining the E.U. until 2007 at the earliest and use of the currency is probably a decade away), Borissov, a former bodyguard to the Prime Minster, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, wants to be seen as a loyal soldier to the West in the war on fakes. Next June, the country is hosting a Europe-wide conference on forging currency. "It's a question of honor," says Borissov. "We want to prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down On Bogus Bills | 11/30/2003 | See Source »

...Tien in Hanoi last Wednesday was light. Tien, 78, had openly criticized corruption in Vietnam's Communist Party, but he's no garden-variety dissident. Tien joined the revolt against the French in the 1940s, was a longtime Party member?and for a few years served as the personal bodyguard of Ho Chi Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not his Kind of Party | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...Soho, records a session for a TV show called CD:UK, checks out the exclusive Players Club in East Ham, and - if the tabs can be trusted - gets so zonked at the Boujis club in South Kensington she has to be carried out, half-conscious, by her bodyguard and plopped into a waiting car. All in all, not bad for her first 48 hours in town. "A combination of jet lag, exhaustion and the odd cocktail," is how Spears' people explained the Boujis wooziness in the pages of the Evening Standard - although her reps now claim they were misquoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes On Britney | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

Barak, who toured Harvard with his wife and one bodyguard, seemed particularly interested in the Dalai Lama’s September visit and “in Memorial Church as an interfaith center of campus,” said Coughlin, who is also a Crimson editor...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ehud Barak Pays Lightning Visit to Harvard | 11/12/2003 | See Source »

...there only for my benefit, but were rather celebrating Halloween as Elle Driver, a.k.a. California Mountain Snake, a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad of Kill Bill fame. Depending on the formulations, she was accompanied by some variation on Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Black Mamba and Cottonmouth’s bodyguard Go Go Yubari. This is a Bad Thing, because the movie’s inspiration is 50 years of B-grade movies, a heritage lost as the movie becomes the newest trend. Since they are often unaware of its background, these trendy devotees run the risk of trivializing the history...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Trend Alert | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

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