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...wanting better prices - "not some willingness to revive the [Russian] empire or punish [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yushchenko." A former Russian Deputy Energy Minister, Vladimir Milov, reports that top officials from Putin down spend a lot of their time fretting about corporate matters. "I was surprised to realize that the lion's share of our President's office work was detailed involvement in the daily life of our gas sector," Milov wrote in a Russian biweekly, Novaya Gazeta. "I felt that Putin personally handled a great deal of what Gazprom's ceo was supposed to do." Such confusion of roles finds...
Think you're not still living the same reality show? Think again. It's no accident that employees in the workplace instinctively know which person to send into the lion's den of the corner office with a risky proposal or a bit of bad news. And it's no coincidence that the sense of hurt feelings and adolescent envy you get when that same colleague emerges with the proposal approved and the boss's applause seems so familiar. But what you summon up with the feelings you first had long ago is the knowledge you gained then too--that...
DIED. Barbara Epstein, 77, literary lion who as a founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books worked with--and in many cases, befriended--writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, Václav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil...
...JUST LION AROUND The self-declared King of Parties and beasts, mascot Goleo VI--why a lion? we don't know--wants you to have a ball...
...when Clinton showed up Tuesday for a speech at the "Take Back America" conference, put on by a liberal group called the Campaign for America's future, it was like "stepping into the lion's den," as one attendee put it. For most of her 25-minute speech, the former First Lady impressed the more than 300 people in a D.C. hotel ballroom with a deft mix of Bush-bashing, proposals for Democrats and a little humor. "I've lived long enough to know that things happen, and things you?d never expect," she said and then paused...