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Compared with that, getting Putin elected was a pushover. The operation began last August, Pavlovsky told TIME, when Boris Yeltsin named Putin Prime Minister and declared him his preferred successor. The strategists' first step was to craft a political party for Putin to lead. They managed that trick last fall, constructing the Unity Party just months before the nation's parliamentary elections. The group was almost a parody of a Russian political party, led by a popular but tongue-tied Cabinet minister and a totally nonverbal Olympic wrestler. But Unity swept into the Duma, or lower house, triggering a wave...
...life and squalid death? You had better believe it. Thirty-one years after America's first lady of victimhood popped her last pill, the publication of Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random House; 510 pages; $29.95) is being greeted by enough hoopla to elect a Senator, including a monthlong Turner Classic Movies marathon and the reissue on 24-karat-gold audiophile CDs of Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which is to the Cult of Dorothy what Are You Experienced? is to air guitarists...
Whom will the College of Cardinals elect to follow this extraordinary Pope? Not likely an American. U.S. Catholicism is seen as out of step with Rome--too worldly, too liberal, too full of dissent and disobedience. Forty percent of the Cardinals who will elect the next Pope are from developing nations, and there has been speculation that the next Pope could come from the growing ranks of African or Latin American bishops. But don't count on it. Says Father Richard McBrien, former chairman of the department of theology at Notre Dame: "The next Pope will be an Italian Cardinal...
...consensual hallucination of "One China" is fading fast, and while armed conflict across the Taiwan Straits remains unlikely in the immediate future, it may have become inevitable in the long term. Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian began softening his rhetoric on independence from China even before his victory in Saturday's poll, and on Monday he called for peace talks with Beijing, an offer promptly rejected by President Jiang Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long...
...self-satisfied former military ruler who had deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago - a capital now ruled, once again, by the very Socialist party Pinochet overthrew in his 1973 coup - he won't be greeted as a national hero. Neither president-elect Ricardo Lagos nor outgoing President Eduardo Frei will be at the airport, and the general is expected to be welcomed by a small delegation of military officers, a marching band, a few thousand of his most fervent supporters and a packed media gallery...