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...Sober but sick," said Bill Clinton on catching sight of Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Cologne G-8 summit in 1999. Clinton was a shrewd judge of his counterpart's state. By the end of Clinton's presidency, writes Strobe Talbott in his excellent new book, The Russia Hand (Random House; 478 pages), the American had met Yeltsin almost as many times as Clinton's nine predecessors combined had met their Russian equals...
...investigation into a mid-air collision between a Russian airliner and a DHL cargo jet over Germany last week has just begun. But scrutiny is already focused on Skyguide, the Swiss air- traffic-control center responsible for the area where the planes crashed. Investigators want to determine whether factors at the center - the deactivation of a crucial warning system, the instructions issued to the Russian pilot less than 50 seconds before impact and Skyguide's sub-European-standard radar system - amount to negligence. Whatever the inquiry finds, notes Daniel Solon at the aviation consultancy Avmark, "this highlights the urgency...
...Even the English fans who made it to Japan?1,072 were prevented from travelling to the Far East for security reasons?joined in the party. And behaved themselves. (The worst behavior came from Russian fans, who rioted in Moscow destroying Japanese cars the night their team lost to Japan. One person was killed.) The English, with their St. George's crosses, took their place in the stands as lovers of football; as did the ever-cheerful Irish in their leprechaun hats and orange-and-green samurai warrior outfits, the Mexicans in their gigantic sombreros, and the beautiful Brazilian women...
...Even the English fans who made it to Japan - 1,072 were prevented from travelling to the Far East for security reasons - joined in the party. And behaved themselves. (The worst behavior came from Russian fans, who rioted in Moscow destroying Japanese cars the night their team lost to Japan. One person was killed.) The English, with their St. George's crosses, took their place in the stands as lovers of football; as did the ever-cheerful Irish in their leprechaun hats and orange-and-green samurai warrior outfits, the Mexicans in their gigantic sombreros, and the beautiful Brazilian women...
...became involved with leftist revolutionaries, seeking out conflict and danger. When he was barely 18, he moved to Berlin and took up photojournalism. His first big break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke in a Copenhagen stadium on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. His pictures were the most dramatic of the day, writes Kershaw. Taken within a meter of so of Trotsky, they were intense, intimate and imperfect - the trademarks of the man who would become famous as Capa, or "shark" in Hungarian. As Nazi power grew in Germany, Friedmann moved...