Word: lithuania
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...Dream Team almost loses to Lithuania, twice...
...that's only because Moscow lost most of its empire in the last decade. Add only the 17 medals snagged by tiny Belarus or the Ukraine's 23, and the ex-Reds were way out on top. To those add the smaller hauls by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and the former Soviet Union took home a staggering 163 medals. But hey, they lost the Cold War, and that means we won the Olympics. Nyah nyah...
...business model--allowing customers to name what they are willing to pay for plane tickets, hotel rooms, toothpaste, phone calls to Lithuania and then pocketing any difference between that and the wholesale price--is made possible by the Net and some nifty patented transaction software. Only through the Web could you match millions of bids with millions of products, all without a fixed price...
...move that struck many in Moscow's downtrodden business circles as quixotic, BMW set up shop in Russia last fall. The arrival represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from...
...selection of Shahn's pictures now at the Sackler Museum shows, again and again, how very well he does so. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, Shahn came to the United States in 1906. His leftist politics and interest in social reform are reflected in these paintings and photographs of New York during the Great Depression. He employs a social-realist vision and style, advocating reform by showing the frustrations of ordinary people and addressing unemployment, poverty, immigration, class and race...