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...allies have portrayed the campaign to close NTV as purely a financial affair: an aggrieved shareholder, the state natural gas monopoly Gazprom, demanding its money back from a feckless and allegedly dishonest tycoon. In fact the move was born of Putin's deep dislike for that tycoon, NTV's owner and founder Vladimir Gusinsky, who could use his station for vendettas but also created a news operation highly critical of Putin's policies in places like Chechnya. Gazprom, meanwhile, is state-controlled and highly dependent on the Kremlin's graces. Moreover, the seizure was accompanied by an action that most...
...consider all past history in regards to progressive discipline," Scali said. "We're at a crucial point in our history with Mr. [Paul C.] McCarthy," the Grille's owner...
...here's to the people who have it right. Here's to Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin, who realized a few years back that the Bullets might not be the right team to represent the murder capital of the country. Here's to schools like St. John's, who ceased being Redmen a decade...
After months of wrangling with the building's owner, Grafton vacated its space this weekend to make way for renovations that will include the expansion of the neighboring Cambridgeport bank...
...Philadelphia 76ers star guard and hopeful hip-hop artist ALLEN IVERSON leads the league in steals per game, but it seems he had some Sixers competition. Last week it was revealed that John Croce, the 76ers' strength-and-conditioning coach and younger brother of team co-owner Pat Croce, had resigned from the team in January after a locker-room videotape showed him executing a dunk in Iverson's pants pockets for spare cash. (Iverson was not in the pants at the time.) Video cameras had been installed after players complained of missing cash. "I felt sick, physically sick," said...