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...vote with about 90 percent counted; official results are expected today. Maskhadov masterminded the daring offensive last August to retake Grozny and bring the Russians to the peace table. He negotiated the deal that made Monday's elections possible. But the Chechens' overwhelming choice of Maskhadov over rival Shamil Basayev, a young rebel leader, shows political savvy in equal parts to gratitude. Moscow considers Basayev a terrorist for his 1995 hostage-taking raid on a southern Russian town, while Maskhadov is seen by Russia as the least of separatist evils. "Maskhadov will not press the problem of recognizing independence...
...epitome of political sophistication, but the capital has never quite shed its reputation as a cultural cow town. The opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971 was supposed to change that. It gave the city an imposing performance space to rival New York City's best and the hope that greater visibility would soon follow. But bricks and mortar can do only so much. The Kennedy Center, which houses an opera house, a concert hall and theaters, did score some coups, including a dazzling visit by the Berlin Opera...
...downtown Washington. After some political wrangling, including a videotaped deposition from Domingo, the city approved a zoning variance so that the store could be converted into an opera house. Scheduled to open in 2001, it will cost more than $100 million. "I hope that our opera house will rival the world's top houses," says city council member Charlene Drew Jarvis, who chairs the economic-development committee. "Paris has nothing on us for the future...
...Backward compatibility," as they call it in the industry, had been an open question since last month, when Apple, after repeated setbacks in trying to keep its aging Mac OS ahead of rival Microsoft, announced that it would buy Apple co-founder Steven Jobs' NeXT Software company for $400 million and use his widely praised operating system instead. Apple officials now say the new system will not only work with most current Mac hardware and software but will probably look and feel like a Mac as well...
...million. But in a year when overall record sales were flat and creativity seemed flatter, Beck has become a critics' darling, deservedly so, and has garnered an impressive number of end-of the-year accolades. Rolling Stone's music-savvy readers voted Odelay the Album of the Year; rival music magazine Spin selected Beck as Artist of the Year. Says Michael Greene, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences: "(Beck) crosses so many genres and creates so many emotions. He can be poppy; he can fuse rap and rock. He's a pretty remarkable...