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Early in his Presidential campaign, George W. Bush was on a four-mile run with a reporter when he began ruminating on the nature of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB lieutenant colonel who had become Russia's President. "Anyone who tells you they've figured Putin out," Bush said, "is just blowing smoke." Months later, on the eve of Bush's inauguration, his soon-to-be National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, stood near a cocktail-party buffet table with a glass of white wine in her hand and predicted a gloomy future for U.S.-Russian relations. "There...
DIED. EARL SHAFFER, 83, reclusive adventurer who in 1948 became the first person to hike the length of the Appalachian Trail in one trip; of liver cancer; in Lebanon, Pa. He made the then 2,058-mile voyage from Georgia to Maine in 124 days...
...workers signed the release and took an opportunity to keep something resembling their old jobs. How many would have taken the deal if they weren’t faced with being thrown out of work, prohibited by their contracts from soliciting old clients or from selling insurance within a mile of their old office...
Clones' visual effects can be buoyant (Anakin makes a pear float, in a literal fruit loop) or imposing (the final vista of an orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
...crews in the country. The opportunity would come at the IRAs, a championship regatta that begins on May 30. Harvard will already be training at Red Top—the Yale boathouse—as the Crimon faces the longest crew race in the nation, with a four-mile course in the varsity event...