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...Chubais brought together an eclectic group of people, such as Maxim Boyko, a Harvard-trained economist, and Yevgeni Savostyanov, an activist and disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...
SANTA MONICA, Calif: O.J. Simpson took everyone by surprise Tuesday, stepping down from the witness stand without taking questions from his own attorney after two brutal days of cross examination by lawyers for the plaintiffs. Defense attorney Robert Baker's surprising decision to put off his chance to ask sympathetic questions of Simpson until next month leaves the jury to reflect on two days of withering attacks on Simpson's credibility without the expected screen that the defense might have provided in its own line of questioning. Responding to criticism of his strategy, Baker told reporters, "There...
...Russian government must keep making tough choices and sticking with them. One example is a peaceful end to the brutal war in Chechnya. Another is an urgently needed overhaul of tax collection. The complexity and inefficiency of the current system have scared off foreign and domestic investment, and Moscow's failure to take in adequate revenues has jeopardized its eligibility for loans from the International Monetary Fund. At a more fundamental level, rampant criminality threatens to undermine the Russian people's confidence in reform and in democracy itself, and could serve as a pretext for the reimposition of stultifying state...
David (played from youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...
Thernstrom has authored a previous book, titled The Dead Girl, about the brutal murder of a friend of hers in California