Word: mikhail
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...volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend of the West Mikhail Gorbachev: "We are sliding toward a new cold...
...Tiger Single, founder of the House of Single, a high-flying London financial firm renamed Single & Single after Oliver, law degree in hand, is brought aboard by his father. The son's initiation into the family business goes smoothly until the firm takes on some new clients: Yevgeny and Mikhail Orlov, Russian brothers who offer Tiger and his son the chance to reap huge profits, with commensurately generous kickbacks to the Orlovs, by acquiring assets of the crumbling Soviet state...
...MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Given two minutes on lowbrow Italian TV show, he spouts forth on politics for 15. And gets paid...
...relationship between Mark Morris and his partner Tina Fehlandt was not so clearly articulated. Their subdued and fluid movements stood in contrast to the brisk footwork and flirtatious posing of Marjorie Folkman and Mikhail Baryshnikov. While technically flawless, Barshnikov delivered a performance that appeared somewhat restrained. Was he playing the role of a proud, aloof lover, or was the control that underlined his movement the result of his classical training? His stiff execution of the role rendered it less effective. Most dancers fail to match the stage presence of a star like Baryshnikov. Marjorie Folkman's energy and musicality proved...
...joins us in our endeavor. Madame Tussaud's, the most popular tourist attraction in London, has created a special TIME 100 exhibit featuring the likenesses of figures such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Beatles, Pablo Picasso, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa and Oprah Winfrey, all of whom have been named in our TIME 100 issues: Leaders and Revolutionaries (April 13, 1998), Artists and Entertainers (June 8, 1998) and Builders and Titans (Dec. 7, 1998). The museum will incorporate wax figures from upcoming issues on Scientists and Thinkers (March...