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Bush's approach might at least be bracing if there were not so many instances in which his initial instincts have proved to be the wrong ones. He initially dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin with a glib quip: "Once a KGB man, always a KGB man." But as he learned more about the Russian, largely at the prodding of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he changed his mind, saying he had "had a sense of [Putin's] soul...
...writings and his political activism; in Moscow. Although Svetov suffered imprisonment and internal exile under communism, his books were printed by the Soviet underground press and also published in the West. After the Soviet Union's collapse, Svetov remained active as a human-rights advocate and a scholar of Russian Orthodoxy...
...dream match would be four Americans in the singles finals." That's unlikely, at least for the men. At No. 6., Agassi is the highest-seeded American. Next, at No. 11, is crowd fave Roddick. Both would have to overcome contenders like German No. 3 seed Tommy Haas and Russian No. 2 Safin. And, especially, Hewitt...
Kanevsky is an unlikely player in this industry. He had to get a special waiver to study math at Moscow State University, where no accommodation was made for him. He learned to lip-read teachers and fellow students, and still relies on lipreading--in English and Russian--rather than the sign language used by most deaf people...
...their German shepherd dogs. It seemed plausible, but the lack of proof weighed on the family for decades. Last year, a long-overlooked cache of half-burned Japanese documents discovered in Changchun, Jilin province, revealed that her father had been captured while delivering intelligence on Japanese troop positions to Russian officers. He died at Unit 731. Now 62 years old, Zhu balances her relief at knowing what happened against the surety of her father's suffering. The simple apology she longs for has not been forthcoming. "Soon all of us who are affected will be dead and it will...