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ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star...
...edge of the Baltic Sea, just past the rusting hulks of the trawlers that crowd the port of Kaliningrad, sits a nondescript, seemingly abandoned factory. Inside, however, scores of mechanics are assembling classy sedans, while nearby, engineers in white lab coats huddle to discuss production levels with their Russian colleagues in German-inflected English. It's an incongruous setting for one of Europe's most prestigious automotive marques, the Bayerische Motorwerken, better known...
...move that struck many in Moscow's downtrodden business circles as quixotic, BMW set up shop in Russia last fall. The arrival represents a return to an area closely linked with German history. Before World War II, the Russian region of Kaliningrad, separated from the motherland by Poland and Lithuania, was Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia. From 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as a major Soviet naval base and was off limits to Westerners. But now BMW's $25 million joint venture is up and running and--mirabile dictu--is actually assembling cars from...
...imagined myself filling the holes in my general knowledge bank, studying a little economics here, a little Russian literature there, and maybe a bit of evolution to top it all off. I still believe in the catchy statement made by President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877: "Every educated person should know a little of everything and something well." But seven semesters later, even as I sit enrolled in my last two Core requirements (actually lovely classes, both), I've gotten over my ignorant affection for the Core and come to the stunning conclusion reached by hundreds of smarter people...
ANDREI BABITSKY Missing Russian who reported Chechens' side turns up. World rejoices; he still faces charges...