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...Kremlin administration. How did Putin's relationship with Khodorkovsky become so strained? The crisis started early this month when the prosecutor's office accused Platon Lebedev, 43, a billionaire and key member of Khodorkovsky's financial empire, of embezzlement in connection with the privatization of a fertilizer plant. This was strange, as the prosecutor's office had previously decided that there was no case to bring. About the same time, a senior Yukos security official was detained on suspicion of a double murder. Yukos representatives say neither man has been formally charged, and dismiss the allegations as spurious. Yet things...
...Love Truck Volkswagen's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, is cranking out 3,000 special-edition old-style Beetles. But when the last one comes off the factory floor on July 30, the Bug's amazing 70-year era will officially end. Chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder, however, has been too busy trying to engineer the €90 billion company's next era to get choked up over the passing of this...
Later in the day the president toured a Ford manufacturing plant. Tour is perhaps a generous term. That's what it was called on the schedule and that's what the workers at the plant were expecting, but Bush had other ideas. He was running uncharacteristically late for the rigidly on-time President. He left a lunch with Mbeki fifty minutes off the mark, and made up for it by cutting 80 minutes of personal time, but he saw a chance to clip a little more time by speeding up the tour...
After greeting some enthusiastic workers, many of whom showed Bush the multi-part handshake of the shop floor, he was off like a shot. Bush rushed so quickly through the plant that the photographers ushered in to capture the photo-op were sent scrambling, backing up with such furry to get out of his way that one nearly clipped the first lady. Clearly the president's torn calf muscle is healing nicely. "Was that a tour?" joked a White House aide when the clatter was over...
...Afterward, the president sat with workers to hear about the plant's AIDS awareness program, a model in a country that some have accused of acting too slowly to admit and embrace the problem. Ford blew through the taboos surrounding the disease, pushing employees to get themselves and their families tested...