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...spark political revolutions. But then Ukraine's Kryvorizhstal is no ordinary steel firm. With annual production of about 7 million tons, it is by far Ukraine's biggest steelmaker, accounting for 20% of output, and one of the country's most valuable companies. Last year, it became a powerful symbol of the nation's crony capitalism. In a privatization widely decried as rigged, Kryvorizhstal was sold last June by the state to Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of then-President Leonid Kuchma, and coal-and-steel magnate Rinat Akhmetov, for $800 million, less than half the amount offered...
...Yushchenko has already shown that he's prepared to follow up on election promises. Last week, police arrested two men in connection with the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, a critic of Kuchma's government whose decapitated body was found in November 2000. The murder became a potent symbol of alleged power abuses in Ukraine, and tracking down the perpetrators was another...
...with references to it. He describes the cloning debate as "the same as nuclear physicists must have felt before developing the bomb. We're aware of tremendous potential benefits, and tremendous dangers." He thinks Nagasaki's comeback is a testament to human endurance and creativity. "It's become a symbol of regeneration," Ishiguro says. "It shows that societies go on, even after individuals have made mistakes." Still, the pressures that attended the success of The Remains of the Day - perhaps reopening wounds he didn't know were there - brought Ishiguro a sense of foreboding he couldn't shake: "My life...
...parliament has shuttled monthly between Brussels and Strasbourg - at a cost of €200 million a year. The Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR) argues that money is wasted. The French disagree. "I've always voted to keep the seat here because it's an important European symbol," says M.E.P. Christine de Veyrac of France's center-right UMP Party. And the city itself invokes the 1997 treaty that calls for it to host 12 annual plenary meetings. "The arguments by the adversaries of Strasbourg are very ignorant of European reality," claims Mayor Fabienne Keller's office. Still, according...
TIME: Yasser Arafat was a symbol for Palestinians around the world. Do you see yourself as a different kind of leader...