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...TIME on the line. She knew about the TIME 100, of course. And she had told another one of Chen's lawyers that she never imagined that she would be married to someone whose name was listed among such notables as Condoleezza Rice, Pope Benedict XVI and China's Premier Wen Jiabao. "I am proud of my husband," she said Thursday, "and I want the outside world to know what is truly happening...
...supported Putin and believed the President shared some of his goals. "He is for rubbing the churki out, and for a strong Russia, and so are we," Belyayev said. Back in the fall of 1999, in the wake of terrorist apartment bombings in Moscow and other Russian cities, then-Premier Putin pledged "to rub out the terrorists on the john." Neo-Nazis - along with many Russians who would genuinely feel insulted if they were called Nazis - interpreted this statement in the same way Belyayev did - as a virtual license to attack. I heard it from officers who fought in Chechnya...
...main gig. You probably know him as the author of the huge 2001 best seller The Corrections, a symphony of Midwestern, middle-class mental suffering that conveys depression and anxiety more entertainingly and eloquently than almost any book I've ever read, and which almost instantly made him the premier literary novelist in his age bracket. You might also possibly remember Franzen as the man who rather too honestly expressed his ambivalence over being chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, prompting Winfrey to honestly, unambivalently rescind her invitation to come on her show...
...majesty. The sheer length of the national highway, its obstinate sameness, means the journey can be a lonely and humbling experience, especially so for those in a hurry. So slow down, take in the view with fresh eyes, and meet some of the characters who live on Australia's premier route...
...Instead, in a sudden about-face, the Socialists formed a Coalition with the PR and the Communists. That left Yushchenko with the legal option of nominating the Coalition Leader Yanukovych, however distasteful to him, for Premier, or disbanding the Rada, which risked aggravating the nation?s already yawning split. With suspense growing - and with two pre-taped TV addresses to the nation, one proclaiming the Rada disbanded, the other one announcing the ?Two-Viktors-One-Country? conciliatory formula - Yushchenko chose the last-minute compromise...