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...Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's main drag, a clutch of teen smokers were underwhelmed by Gerasimenko's ban--which envisions cutting all smoking scenes from TV and films. "I've been smoking since 10," said Vadim, 15, displaying his yellowed teeth. "They can make all the restrictions in the world, but no one's going to keep Mr. Philip Morris from...
...Catholic government must be formed on July 15. It is to be led by Trimble, who finds himself nudged further and further out on the proverbial limb by the IRA?s recalcitrance and Blair?s seeming tolerance for it. Protestant leaders do not want to be the ones to drag Ireland from peace back into war, but sharing a government with the Catholics when the IRA remains a fighting force is unthinkable to the Protestant rank-and-file. July 12, the emotional high point of marching season, may well be D-Day for all concerned. While their leaders score political...
...measuring devices. "Sentimentally, it was a very hard decision," says CEO Lew Platt--not least because "I spent more than half my career in measurements." But measuring devices had come to account for only 17% of HP's volume, and a collapse in Asian markets turned them into a drag on overall profits. Those now come mainly from computers and related equipment, but HP got into that field as a kind of sideline and, with its attention divided, has long been regarded as trailing more innovative rivals. "We fell behind in the early days of the Internet," admits Platt...
...repeatedly pursued Hubbell on Clinton-related matters. It also sweetens somewhat the bitter taste of recent defeats -- the acquittal and mistrial of Susan McDougal and the mistrial of Juliet Hiatt Steele. Of course, it is unlikely to change the verdict of Starr's critics, who believe he needlessly helped drag the country through months of impeachment politics. Nor is it likely to help revive the statute that gave him his job: With no enthusiasts for either the law or the spectacle it unleashed, the independent counsel statute is scheduled to expire unceremoniously this Wednesday...
Expected in some quarters to drag on through the weekend, the deal was reached before desperation set in on NATO?s side. "Moscow had been quite content to prolong the standoff," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. After all, by seizing Pristina's airport and spoiling NATO?s victory parade, Russia restored some of the sense of geopolitical power that had faded since the end of the Cold War. But apparently realizing that the standoff could last only so long -- Russia after all remains in economic free-fall and can't afford to step on the West?s goodwill indfinitely...