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...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
...finalizing a deal with Belarus to take control of the pipeline that crosses its territory into Western Europe. The tough negotiations with Ukraine are widely seen as an attempt to weaken the party of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in advance of March's parliamentary elections. In an echo of Soviet-era threats, on Russian television last week industry officials enthusiastically demonstrated how they would cut off all gas supplies to Ukraine if it refused to agree to the new price - $230 per 1,000 cu m, more than four times the $50 it currently pays. "This [price...
...found their completion and finally shaped up in 2005." Lilia Shevtsova, senior analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center in Moscow, laments that Putin has "abandoned even halfhearted attempts at deregulating the economy, pursuing administrative reform or curbing corruption." Instead, she says, "Russia is completing the creation of a post-Soviet state, which continues the Russian tradition of authority raised high above society." All of this clearly disturbs Illarionov. "I wish Russia would be a G-8 member as a developed, free and democratic country. I worked to that end," he told Time. Putin will be taking a different message...
...actions," he told TIME. His legal documents, which were obtained by TIME, do not show that the sale of C-4 explosives for which he was charged was CIA approved. There is evidence that the agency in another instance used Wilson to barter weapons or explosives with Libya for Soviet military equipment that the U.S. wanted to study. His lawyers have offered evidence that the agency, among other things, proposed that Wilson use his consulting firm to help transport handguns and submachine guns to Saudi Arabia. They also say it arranged the testing of body armor for the Shah...
...have gone about it in different ways, depending on the forces that were arrayed against them. Dwight Eisenhower, confronting a hostile Congress, made his mark with his veto pen. Ronald Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could by Executive Order and picked his shots with Republicans on Capitol Hill--for instance, demanding more education spending in must-pass bills at the end of the year--boosting his popularity...