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...Europeans are all following closely." Indeed, Putin seems eager to secure Western political influence at high levels: last month, he persuaded former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to become chairman of a company building a new gas pipeline from Russia to Western Europe that will bypass Ukraine by going under the Baltic Sea. Putin also offered a top job at a Russian state-owned oil company to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans; Evans declined the position...
...well-known raconteur on overseas flights, it turned out that Bush was the charmer on that trip, introducing everyone all around, taking a shine to a couple of Clinton's aides and generally making folks feel at ease. Clinton was more subdued, still recovering from his quadruple-bypass operation five months before, but not so much that he could resist staying up at night playing Oh Hell! with Jean Becker, Bush's chief of staff...
...junior, Bush will probably bypass his final year of college for the NFL's riches (say goodbye to the inmates, Mom). Because he's barely 6 ft. tall and weighs about 200 lbs., skeptics fear his body won't withstand the NFL's pounding. "No question, size has to be a concern," says an NFL general manager. But several smaller backs have succeeded. "If that guy fails in the NFL," says an NFL college-scouting director, "something is wrong." Bush has sold the league's all-time leading rusher. "Aw, come on," says Emmitt Smith of the critics. "They...
...Perhaps I’m just waiting for the right moment to pounce on a newly-separated Brad (or Angelina, for that matter). Whatever the motivation, there’s one secret weapon I have that keeps me ahead of my peers when it comes to celebrity stalkage: I bypass the magazine rack and hit the entertainment blogosphere. It’s gossip 2.0!Listen, kiddos, step away from whatever crap publication you just purchased. Get some tongs, hold the document away from your body and drop it in the nearest recycling bin (Hey, just because it?...
...good-hearted, impotent officials who "fund, cut and then scrap" policies that need time to grow. Estens senses there's a mindset in government that "Aboriginal employment is an intractable problem." He claims corporate Australia has lost confidence in old-style government programs and is looking for ways to bypass existing structures. "Business wants to help Aboriginal people," he says. "But they need to be convinced the money, and the effort, will actually improve people's lives...