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...will presumably welcome Russia’s efforts to diversify America’s oil supply. A potential stumbling block arises, though, in that the main orchestrator of the Murmansk project is Putin’s political nemesis, Mikhail Khodorovsky. Chairman of YukosSibneft and expected presidential candidate in March, Khodorovsky has been a motivating force in the industry’s drive to expand west. Given President Bush’s effusive rapprochement with Putin after Sept. 11, this places the U.S. in a tough spot: backing the project could give Khodorovsky a boost and undermine Putin?...
Knights senior Mikhail Klochkov snuck the ball into the net between Burmeister and the left post for what would prove to be the Knights’ winning goal...
...have lived up to that description. Unlike President Bush with Iraq, Putin can make sure Russians are not reminded of the Chechnya quagmire on a daily basis on TV. But silence is no solution. "I am here because it's the only job I know how to do," says Mikhail, a noncommissioned officer with the militarized forces of Russia's Interior Ministry, as he feeds a cat in the tightly guarded garrison that protects the Chechen government headquarters in Grozny. "This war is a f______ mess." Chechnya may not be Putin's undoing in the coming elections, but its endless...
...western Pakistan that borders Afghanistan is dotted with religious schools imparting the crude religious teaching that spawned the Taliban is that these were built during the 1980s by the Saudi and Pakistani government to indoctrinate the next generation of mujahedeen to fight the Soviets. (Nobody had expected that Mikhail Gorbachev would suddenly bring the Red Army home...
...dancing; in Los Angeles. Like Sammy Davis Jr., he was a kid in a family song-and-dance act--Hines, Hines & Dad--and went on to star in a multitude of media: as singer (combining for duets with Luther Vandross), as movie star (swapping moves with Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, cracking wise with Billy Crystal in Running Scared), as TV actor (playing '30s tap master Bill Robinson in Bojangles) and as Tony-winning Broadway headliner (in Jelly's Last Jam). His greatest gift, however, was in his feet, which hit the amplified floor like Chinese firecrackers, broke from standard...