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Even after he was elected Russia's President last March, Vladimir Putin remained a riddle. Was he really, as his own staff members whispered, a cautious reformer who had learned his stuff in St. Petersburg during the early years of perestroika? Or was he the product of his training and times--a middle-level KGB officer whose views had been formed during a period when the Soviet Union seemed, on the surface at least, a mighty power? Thanks to the Kursk submarine debacle, which cost 118 lives, the guessing game is over. Putin is a gosudarstvennik--a believer...
MYTH NO. 1 AL THE CAUTIOUS...
Consolidations such as Politics.com and Medinex could be just the beginning as the new sites struggle for online viewers and revenues. In Philadelphia last week, a cautious McCurry was pressing the flesh and putting forth the softest of sells. "The revolution hasn't happened yet," the former White House spokesman said of online politics. But when it does, "we want to be the premier site selling to organizations and groups that are using the Internet to organize." Which is just the problem, of course, because so does everyone else...
...McCabe notes that speculative fever remains high, evident in a vibrant IPO market. John McGinley, editor of Technical Trends, worries about the recent slide in margin debt--money borrowed to buy stocks. You'd think a decline in that figure would be healthy, signaling that investors are more cautious. But McGinley reads the decline from the March record of $279 billion to June's $247 billion differently. "People have been wiped out," he says. "They have no money left to be buyers. It's another nail in the coffin of the bulls...
...been "stable and unchanged for the past several years." But they don't provide Cheney's so-called ejection fraction, a measurement that tells doctors how well the heart is pumping blood. "Stable and unchanged does not mean normal," says Dr. David Pearle at Georgetown Medical Center. "That is cautious wording. It could be mildly or even moderately abnormal and still be stable and unchanged...