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...prodigy. At 9 he was the chess champion of his native Kalmykia, a tiny, impoverished Russian republic populated by the descendants of Genghis Khan. But his talents went beyond pushing pawns. In his 20s he made millions running a string of banks in the early wildcat years of post-Soviet Russian capitalism. At the tender age of 31 the dapper Ilyumzhinov (he has a fondness for white capes and vintage Rolls-Royces) was elected President of Kalmykia. His regime has been dogged by allegations ranging from electoral irregularities and embezzlement of federal funds (an investigation has been launched...
...GULA. He spent the next 17 years trying to find her again. The first meeting took place when McCurry visited an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan and took the 12-year-old orphan's picture. He didn't learn her name, only that her parents had been killed by Soviet bombs. The picture appeared on the magazine's cover and, according to the editors, became the most recognized photograph in the publication's history. In subsequent visits to the region, McCurry tried in vain to locate her again. In January he returned to the refugee camp, and this time someone...
...bank accounts in this way?'" says Ken Sawka, a former CIA analyst and a vice president of FULD & CO., a CI consultancy based in Cambridge, Mass. "When I was in the government, the guy sitting next to me didn't know how to do that. He knew about Soviet helicopters. I think CI has matured to the point that there are things that the government can learn from us, such as how to dissect a corporate strategy." Oddly, however, none of the CI professionals interviewed for this article have been approached by the government for help...
...China, the once self-proclaimed Worker's Paradise, seeing the birth of an independent labor movement? Not if Beijing has any control over the situation. The Communist Party traces the fall of the Soviet Union to Poland's legalization of the Solidarity labor union, and leaders still deride worker movements as "the Polish disease." It was the sudden emergence of China's first independent union in May 1989, during the Tiananmen Square uprising, that prompted the leadership to send in the tanks. (A large number of the uncounted victims of that slaughter were workers on the avenues around Tiananmen...
...back to the Crimson’s last trip to the NCAA tournament in 1994 to find a more meaningful game—and it couldn’t have come at a better place than Lake Placid, site of the United States’ historic defeat of the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics...