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...Central Bank, where he oversaw the introduction of the national currency and was credited with steering the country through the turbulence of the 1998 Russian economic crash. Tapped by President Leonid Kuchma as Prime Minister a year later, Yushchenko alienated Ukraine's financial oligarchs and overshadowed his unpopular boss, who fired him in 2001. As head of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, he has become a skilled political adversary, leading meticulously planned demonstrations and framing the election in stark, eloquent terms. "Our choice is very simple," he said just before the runoff. "Either we live according to the code...
...fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population tends to view his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, as a pawn of the West. After what...
...With his first collection for the fabled French couture house, Pilati did an about-face from his former boss Tom Ford and scrounged through Saint Laurent's archives, bringing back all the iconic pieces that Saint Laurent himself made famous, including the safari shirt, now in supple ultrasuede. Pilati even created a "must-have" handbag and named it after the model from 1968: the Veruschka...
...later when Rob Marshall's Chicago grossed over $170 million in the U.S. and bagged six Oscars. "Movie musicals went out of fashion for a long time," says Schumacher, "but finally it looks like they're coming back." Harvey Weinstein certainly thinks so. In the past year, the Miramax boss (his studio was behind Chicago) has gobbled up the rights to such old-school classics as Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls and Pippin. American Beauty director Sam Mendes has announced plans to shoot Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Mel Brooks is set to roll on his movie turned musical turned...
Dear Madame Secretary: congratulations from a European admirer, and good luck. This is the job, after all, that defeated Colin Powell, a would-be multilateralist who lost critical battles with the Pentagon and Vice President. But if you want to redeem America (and your boss) in the eyes of the world, you'll have to find a way to restore American leadership. Fortunately, you have the skills and circumstances to pull it off. As President Bush savors his triumph, the history books beckon. And you can help him take a page from Ronald Reagan, who in his second term forsook...