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Diplomats say in private that he questions the prevailing wisdom in the Russian leadership, which holds that the main challenge to Russia comes from the West and nato's enlargement. Berezovsky is said to argue that the real long-term threat to Russia comes from the Islamic world...
Telmex is now a $17 billion enterprise, and Slim is looking further afield in more ways than one. His main strategic objective is to diversify the company away from ordinary telephone services and into data transmission, videoconferencing and the Internet. "Long-distance communications are old news," he told Time...
...needs clean hands. Plus he has to pre-empt a possible primary challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who wants to make a signature issue out of campaign-finance reform. Lately Gore has been promoting the idea of requiring broadcast outlets to provide advertising slots, the main thing campaigns spend money on, free of charge to them. No big outlays, goes the reasoning, no need for big fund raising. But on the most important piece of current reform legislation, the McCain-Feingold bill banning "soft money" contributions, Gore has to keep his distance. One reason is that...
...clearly ranked above his colleagues in the leadership, power plays seem inevitable, probably timed to the next Party Congress this fall, where the new leadership will be confirmed. At that meeting, says a Chinese analyst in Beijing, "some people will get jobs, and others will lose theirs." The main contenders will try to strengthen their positions and prepare for the day Jiang trips over a policy or runs into a crisis he can't handle...
...reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity and hints of Depp's other main line, which consists of making something quite hypnotic out of a passivity enlivened by nothing more than watchful alertness. He used this strand in his oddly matched pair of accountants, one of whom is drawn against his will into an assassination plot in Badham's Nick of Time, while...