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...ruble lost one-fourth of its value against the greenback Tuesday in the worst one-day nosedive since 1992. It closed at 3,926 to the dollar, or 1/40th of a cent, at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, a drop of 845 points. Russians went on a buying spree, picking up durables like refrigerators, stereo and televisions -- anything to rid themselves of their national currency. What caused the drop? Speculators dumping the currency in huge quantities, and an underlaying pessimism about the country's political stability...
Very simply, Mickey, played hauntingly by Woody Harrelson, begins the spree by freeing his lover from her abusive parents. Juliette Lewis plays the high-pitched, writhing partner and bonded-by-blood lover, Mallory. The two of them kill masses of people but always leave one survivor to attest that Mickey and Mallory Knox were the perpetrators. When are tabloid press gets wind of them, their intention to secure their 15 minutes of fame seem to have come to fruition. To tell more would be to give away the rest of the film, but suffice it to say the substance...
...focusing his efforts mostly on such large emerging markets as Indonesia, South Korea and Latin America. China is the biggest prize: during the next five years, as it struggles to industrialize as rapidly as possible, the People's Republic is expected to go on a $1 trillion shopping spree for foreign technology. Leading a group of 24 U.S. business executives on a whirlwind trip to China two weeks ago, Brown helped net deals worth nearly $6 billion. The agreements included a commitment by Shanghai Airlines to purchase 11 Boeing 757 passenger jets ($1 billion), a telecommunications contract...
...escaped convict and a teenager suspected of a cross-country murder and robbery spree were nabbed in Santa Fe when they woke up in handcuffs. State police found Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Eric Elliot, 16, sleeping under a culvert -- with two high-powered rifles, a shotgun and a pistol. The cops followed up on a tip from a motorist who had given the two a ride last night. Gilbert and Elliot, both from Newcomerstown, Ohio, are suspected of kidnapping a 79-year-old Ohio woman, burglarizing her farmhouse and stealing her car a week ago, then killing a Missouri couple...
...pictures are as appalling as any that have come across global television screens, yet no one is calling for direct intervention to stop the month-old killing spree in Rwanda. However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims...