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...turning Russian-American relations into a game of personal chemistry. That was forgotten when Bush first met Putin last month and gushed that he had looked into the former KGB man's eyes "to get a sense of his soul." Bush believes his charm and persuasiveness will move his pal Putin to let the U.S. do what it wants. As an adviser puts it, the Administration is going to "work it and work it and work it and work it" until Putin gives...
...kept playing and chatting for hours that night. Around four in the morning he called his pal Joey Reynolds, the all-night radio host, to say that Billy Joel and the James Brown horn section had showed up at his birthday party. He was just kidding, or wishing. But who needed them when two legends were filling that tiny stage? A living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. He closed the first set that night with the plaintive ballad 'Just One More Chance.' He was playing it, he said, 'in remembrance of my partner Mary...
...genial Mormon, 38, who raises critics' spirits and audiences' hackles with dramatic essays in cruelty. His 1997 movie In the Company of Men had a suavely evil fellow concoct a scheme to seduce and then abandon an innocent deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they might be reciting...
Maintaining relationships from within prison walls is a trial. Some of these kids have devoted parents and friends. A number have attracted admirers. Ramsey has a pen-pal fiance. Kip Kinkel, who is serving a 112-year term for killing his parents and then two students in his Oregon high school in 1998, has received money in the mail from strangers. Charles (Andy) Williams, who is in prison on charges of killing two students in his Santee, Calif., school in March, gets more letters than he can answer--as many as 40 a week, according to his lawyer. There...
...Mahathir throwing veiled barbs at his old pal? Apparently because he has his own back to the wall. Faced with hemorrhaging support in his core constituency, the country's indigenous Malay population, Mahathir is setting out on a major cleanup campaign aimed at refurbishing his own image and that of his party. Both have long been tainted by allegations of cronyism, corruption and arrogance. For many observers both in and outside of the party, the Prime Minister will almost surely be forced to jettison some of his closest political allies. "He will do things that no other politician will...