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...back pages away from the Yanks and increase their public exposure. Such media coups are growing more and more commonplace as every off-season becomes an extension of on-field rivalries and teams compete for the attention and money of fans by throwing enormous chunks of cash at premier free agents...
...Follini, the wily Christian Democratic leader, threatened to withdraw his party from Berlusconi's coalition. Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti's forced resignation in July fired the hopes of opposition leaders even more. The bluster and bravado that had helped keep Berlusconi in office for longer than any other Italian premier since World War II seemed to be wearing thin Yet six months later, the Italian leader is once again sitting pretty. What's his secret? Part of the credit goes to a new, gentler governing approach, as Berlusconi has tempered his outbursts against center-left opponents and found new ways...
...takes? How pro-Western - and pro-democratic - is he? As a competent central banker in the '90s, he helped protect Ukraine from the impact of the Russian financial meltdown in 1998 and established the Ukrainian hryvnia as a stable currency. He then transformed himself into a low-key Premier, appointed in December 1999 in a deal to dissuade him from running for the presidency against Kuchma. He stood by Kuchma during allegations against the regime of corruption and murder of political opponents. The most scandalous allegation concerned the disappearance and subsequent murder of Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative journalist...
...Petro Poroshenko, who made his millions in the candy business. Both want to be Prime Minister. "Some top lieutenants are saying that Yushchenko's health will not hold out for more than a year or two, so he'd better make sure he picks up 'the right kind of Premier,' meaning the person who is saying this, of course," says Bondarenko. A close Yushchenko aide, who spoke to Time on condition of anonymity, shares Bondarenko's apprehensions. "Let's face it: the key people in the Yushchenko team - [M.P.s] Yuliya Tymoshenko, David Zhvania, Petro Poroshenko - are from the same oligarchic...
...hectic and controversial year, Australia's Federal Police Commissioner seemed as likely to turn up in Jakarta, Seoul, Dili, Nuku'alofa, Honiara or Lae as in his home base of Canberra. Mick Keelty, 50, is the region's premier crime fighter at a time when law enforcement is anything but a desk job. The force he leads is charged with fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, people smuggling, identity theft, sexual servitude and child pornography. The A.F.P.'s first duty is to Australia, but on Keelty's watch it has also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police...