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...care enough about current events to watch this movie, it's no spoiler to say that Gorton et al. ultimately salvage the campaign. (Their secret consultancy was a TIME cover story in 1996.) The drama is in how. Facing a suspended election and crackdown if Yeltsin tanks and possible dictatorship if the communists win, they persuade Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana (Svetlana Efremova) to try a modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about...
...ousting George Papandreou's socialist PASOK party, which had dominated Greek politics for more than two decades. Incoming Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, head of the victorious New Democracy party, is the nephew and namesake of a former PM, and was elected on a pledge of more jobs and a crackdown on corruption. The move to the right in Greece is just one of a series of recent snubs to leftist governments. In 2002, voters in France gave conservative President Jacques Chirac the parliamentary majority he'd asked for. In traditionally left-leaning Scandinavia , the right has gained ground...
Matt Morello, a Yale senior, created Yale Record Exchange (YRX) to fill the void left by the crackdown on Kazaa, a popular music sharing website that has been challenged on copyright issues...
...foreign policy in recent months have given us pause." If Powell was signaling a new, tougher White House policy, it has been a long time in the making. A senior U.S. official told journalists that concerns over Putin's authoritarian tendencies had been intensified by the Kremlin's crackdown on Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail...
...efforts to kill Musharraf as actually working in Washington's favor. Confides a Bush Administration official: "Frankly, the assassination attempts are another indication that Musharraf is going in the direction that we'd like him to"--that is, against Pakistan's extremists. "This could very well precipitate a stronger crackdown...