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...admit that Bush's personal feelings about Schroeder have been irreparably damaged. Though the Bush team came into office saying they would not let personal relationships cloud their foreign policy, it is clear that in some cases, Bush's gut rules. The president has taken a personal liking to Russian President Vladimir Putin despite having said he would not fall into that trap, and he has made a similarly personal judgment, though with very different results, about Schroeder...
...bespectacled preteen orphans, similarities tend to emerge. The broomstick, as many know, is a mode of transportation for Harry Potter, star of the book series by British author J.K. Rowling. The musical instrument is used to similar effect by Tanya Grotter, protagonist of a popular book series by Russian author Dmitry Yemets. Tanya first showed up in August in Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, which sold 100,000 copies in Russia. Like Harry, Tanya is an orphan who resides in a world swirling with magic. Instead of a scar on her forehead like Harry's, however, Tanya...
...Russian immigrant Pavel Tsatsouline introduced these regulations, as well as the kettlebell regimen itself, to the United States in the early 1990s...
Tsatsouline introduced kettlebells to the American fitness community in workshops and videos and has become something of a guru, authoring such books as The Russian Kettlebell Challenge: Xtreme Fitness for Hard-Living Comrades and From Russia with Tough Love: Pavel’s Kettlebell Workout for a Femme Fatale...
...gushed columnist Tom Friedman in The New York Times, “It was the first time since then that the world community seemed to be ready to overcome all of its cultural, religious and strategic differences to impose a global norm.” The Russian news service Pravda was even more optimistic, writing, “The dawn of a New World Order has broken.” Friedman and Pravda are not alone; the unanimous passing of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 mandating inspections in Iraq or else is making a lot of people loopy. After...