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...other former Soviet republics. The price will be hefty, including perhaps a renegotiation of Bush’s precious missile defense shield, but the rewards are worth it: Bringing Russia into closer relations with the U.S. has the potential to further democratic elements within Moscow’s sphere of power, weakening the autocratic elites who dream of Tsarist empires...
...novelist that Crichton was best known. He wrote two dozen thrillers, including The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere and Jurassic Park, that collectively sold over 150 million copies. (A new one, its title and subject matter still unannounced, is slated for publication in December.) Crichton was never a literary stylist, but his skills as a storyteller were enormous. His plots have a crystalline perfection that has been much-copied, by The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown among many others, and his sense of pacing and his ability to weave diverse plot strands into an elegant braided whole are virtually unmatched...
...wouldn’t like it very much if Russia entered our sphere of influence,” Toft said...
...concerns about slower growth at Google, Intel's after-the-bell third-quarter earnings report, and how much companies will be investing in technology next year. Though a sharp drop, it was a hopeful sign that investors may have returned to caring about stocks' fundamentals and have left the sphere of fear that had been dominating the market's swings...
...Russia comes not just from the left, but from his German business constituents as well. Germany contributes nearly 40% of total E.U. investment in Russia. "I can understand how they feel their business is threatened," says Von Klaeden. "But they also say that politics should remain in the political sphere and that the two sides should never...