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...Elegant, yes. Elegant to the point of being sinister. That's what I was aiming for. Hence the little cravat and those Japanese flip-flop shoes. To give him the sense that it was all too good to be true...
...streaking team from South Bend, the sudden spurt would be enough to put the Crimson away for good. Despite Primm's five goals on the day, Harvard fell deeper into a slide that is eerily reminiscent of last season's second-half flop, during which the Crimson dropped its final seven games...
...Putin was sent to the KGB Red Banner Academy and Foreign Intelligence School 101 to prepare for service abroad, then posted to East Germany. Few concrete facts have emerged about his career there, and observers disagree about the quality of his service, from brilliant James Bond to third-rate flop. The known outlines--and the way his career ended--suggest something unremarkable. "He was no superspy," admits one of his young Kremlin aides. "His line was political intelligence" aimed at recruiting Western agents. Putin says his work involved ferreting out information on the U.S.S.R.'s political enemies: pressuring East Germans...
...empire building in the West End looks shrewd. While lots of shows flop, total box-office revenue there has climbed in 12 of the past 13 years, to $425 million in 1999, when more than 12 million tickets were bought at an average price of $35. That's a nightly equivalent of more than 425 double-decker busloads of theatergoers. William Jackson, managing director of NatWest Equity Partners, an equal investor in the 13 theaters with Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group, sees even better times ahead. "The demand for live entertainment is increasing," he says, "and there is also...
BAUER'S BIGGEST FLOP...