Word: redburn
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...that John Adams, Ken Agee and Ron Redburn rented a little house on 24th Street and began an international dating service called A Foreign Affair, a.k.a. loveme.com They ran ads in Russian newspapers asking women to send photos and vital statistics, and several weeks later their website debuted with 300 Russian princesses. Today they are the Manny, Moe and Jack of love. They have profiles of 6,500 women from 49 countries, dozens of clients have married, and they've hired six more employees in Phoenix and 20 in Russia. "It just took off," says Adams, whose love connection...
There may be an easier way: set up your own introduction service. In November 1997, Redburn, 46, became the first of the three owners to marry a Russian woman he met through their website. Last month, after 18 months of courting, Adams, 37, became the second to take a Russian wife. Next month, Agee, also 37, will make it a trifecta. The combined ages of the three owners is 120, and of their lovely brides...
Love struck quickly, says Redburn's wife Elina, who had an engineering degree in Russia and now works for her husband. Same for Adams' wife Tanya, who has a business degree. The women miss aspects of home but say good riddance to Russian men. Besides, it may take some improvising and networking, Tanya says, but it is possible to make good borscht in Phoenix...
...perhaps the Bosnian game is deception rather than surprise. Most of the military experts watching last week's offensive take shape confessed that they were confused. One of them, Canadian Lieut. Colonel Daniel Redburn, had a particularly close vantage point. He was bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo...
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