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...Quiet American). While there he became fluent in Hungarian and met his wife, also a Corps volunteer, with whom he has a three-month-old daughter. He served as a desk officer in Washington and an administrative officer in Mongolia before arriving in Moscow last year. When his predecessor left Russia last June, Hay became acting country director. This is not his first brush with controversy. In August, 30 volunteers who'd been in Russia for a year were denied visa extensions. The Russian Education Ministry, which coordinates Corps' activities, "supported our requests for visas and passed them...
...return for managing the place, Berman and his partners got 40% of the profits for seven years, after which the tribe took over. Eager to duplicate the model, Berman backed three more Indian ventures: the Grand Casino Hinckley, also in Minnesota, and two casinos in Louisiana. In 1999 a predecessor company, Lakes Gaming Inc., which was publicly owned, earned $54.7 million in management-fee income and had a net profit of $28.8 million. Berman has done so well that in 1997 executive-compensation guru Graef Crystal called his compensation package for the previous year--which totaled $18 million in salary...
...more Americans were out of work (not counting O'Neill and Lindsey) and that the unemployment rate had risen to 6%, up from 5.7% the previous month. With the next presidential election less than two years away, "we recognize that we can no longer blame this on our predecessor," says a senior White House adviser. Nor can the Administration afford to prolong domestic turmoil as it seeks to rally public support for a possible war with Iraq. If Bush's attention is going to remain overseas, it becomes even more important that his domestic house be in order. "The President...
...validated by the box-office take ($860 million worldwide for Fellowship) and the hatching of a blockbuster franchise. So of course he would believe that the audience can follow this complex storyline, without crib sheets, over a two- or three-year span. And he's right. Taken with its predecessor, The Two Towers makes Jackson's vision even clearer: that the end result will be not three films but one mammoth, majestic 9-hr. artifact that is likely to become the supreme movie epic of our time. Towers, while naturally lacking the variety of moods and settings in Fellowship...
Visiting the DMV is rarely a pleasant experience anywhere. But in Virginia it has got far worse. Democratic Governor Mark Warner, who inherited a $5 billion shortfall from his Republican predecessor, closed 12 service centers and cut hours at others. Motorists stand in longer lines. State G.O.P. officers charge that the closings were politically motivated, given that 10 of the shuttered DMV offices are in districts represented by Republicans. But Warner denies it, and a DMV spokesman says only "absolute business reasons" were taken into account...