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...winger, currently with Switzerland's HC Davos. "And you'll go back hopefully a better skater." The money's not too bad, either - at least for the best players. Jagr, who has kept his signature jersey No. 68, a reminder of the 1968 crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet troops, is reportedly earning $400,000 a month after taxes. Most, however, are not making anywhere near the NHL average of $1.83 million, and some are only receiving meals and lodging. A few Russian oil barons may be willing to throw around millions, but the broader economics are just...
...France's iconic postmodern intellectual. A writer, director, philosopher and humanitarian activist, he has been called everything but shy. Since he burst into public view in 1977 as a founding member of the "new philosopher" movement - which urged action over purely conceptual thought, and broke leftist ranks by denouncing Soviet communism as fascism - the mediagenic BHL (as he's usually known) has been relentless. He has published countless essays and more than 30 books, including his 2003 "investi-novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation of the people and places that led to the Wall Street Journal reporter...
...chuckles of disbelief when his detractors hear that one of his latest passions is Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy and that when it comes to approval from the intelligentsia, the President is more needy than he lets on. Written by an Israeli Cabinet minister and former Soviet dissident, the book argues that true security in the Middle East and the world can come only with ballot boxes. The President has pressed it on his top advisers and is even proselytizing outside his inner circle. "I want you to read a book," Bush told a TIME reporter, interrupting...
...Final Splintering The turmoil over Ukraine's November presidential elections once again put that country in the spotlight [Dec. 6]. It was only 13 years ago that the former founding member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics declared itself a separate nation, helping guarantee the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union...
...import of the vote [in favor of Ukrainian independence from the disintegrating U.S.S.R.] went beyond the imminent creation of the fifth most populous country in Europe?52 million people, slightly fewer than in France. More broadly, the ballot seems likely to trigger the final dissolution of the Soviet Union ... Even now [the Kremlin government] is only a shell that some diplomats assert fails the test for diplomatic recognition?it does not control the territory it claims. Last week the [Soviet] central bank ran out of cash ... [and] the government may be unable to pay its employees, including the more than...