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What's weird about the following scene: Beijing gangsters shove hostages into a car and flee. When the pursuing police fire at their gas tank, blowing it up, the hooligans hustle the captives from the smoldering wreck into a nearby building. A dozen cops in black ski masks race across open ground firing semi-automatic weapons at them, scale the building with ropes, then swing from the rooftop through the windows. After a second gun battle, they subdue the outlaws. It's unclear what has become of the hostages. Later, when asked if police normally open fire on cars...
...from their plundered country. But what can they do with their foreign villas and bank accounts if they lose access? Might their nevyezdnoi status compel them to reinvest their ill-gotten gains in their own national economy? A major oligarch is said to be looking into the development of ski resorts in the Caucasus Mountains. Might the lure of potential profits force Russian tycoons to pacify Chechnya more effectively-and less barbarously-than the government has been trying to? Will they, indeed, find ways to make their money serve them here-and benefit their country, too? If so, the West...
Although all the Harvard ski teams had a bumpy ride this weekend, Nordic phenom Anna McLoon continued to pine away at a bid for an invitation to the NCAA Championships, turning in the most impressive performance among Harvard competitors...
...downhill events, the Crimson found the icy terrain difficult to ski. However, Harvard had some fine personal performances...
...world? The prevailing mood at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was that the U.S., once the home of irrational exuberance and dotcom mania, is just so 20th century. Yet the five members of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened in the Swiss ski resort, were less than unanimous. No one disputed that the U.S. economy is slowing and could even grind toward a recession, though most agreed that a recovery would come by late this year. The hottest debate was over Europe's ability to isolate itself from the woes across the Atlantic...