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Bush has discussed Putin with world leaders ranging from Britain's Tony Blair to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And he's been briefed by CIA experts on the way the former KGB officer charms foreign leaders in meetings such as this. Putin will be ready to banter on everything from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to Bush's love of baseball. He may even make some private small talk in English in an attempt to ease the tension of their first meeting. In that sense, at least, the Russian is a bit like Bush...
RESIGNED. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO, 47, popular Prime Minister of Ukraine, after receiving a vote of no confidence from the communist-led opposition in parliament; in Kiev. His ouster, which was met with the biggest protest in three months of political turmoil, removes the main check on the power of the business oligarchs to whom embattled President Leonid Kuchma is largely beholden. RESIGNED. CUMHUR ERSUMER, 48, Turkish Energy Minister and the highest-ranking official to step down over a graft scandal that partially triggered the country's economic crisis; in Ankara. Ersumer's announcement pushed Turkey's stock market up more than...
...Shane Willis and the Canes’ revered captain Ron Francis with solid, clean hits. Both players left the series with concussions. The look in Stevens’ eye afterwards was the same one he gave Red Wing Dino Ciccarelli in the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals after he ended Viktor Kozlov and said, “You’re next...
Vladimir putin wasn't able to rub out the Chechen guerrillas, Viktor Shenderovich remarked ruefully last Saturday, but he sure got us. Shenderovich, whose impishly satirical programs are wildly popular in Moscow, had just resigned from NTV, Russia's only privately owned nationwide network. A few hours earlier NTV as the Russian public knew it - opinionated, strident but often head and shoulders above the competition - had ceased to exist. In the early hours of the morning police and security guards hired by the network's new owners had taken over its studios and installed a new management headed by Boris...
Fashion week in Paris was a wonderful time to be either a dedicated follower of the garment trade or just someone who likes to watch skinny women get slathered in goop. At the Louvre, Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf unveiled their Black Hole line, featuring models dressed entirely in black clothing and covered in black makeup, leaving only their freaky glowing eyes for illumination. Meanwhile, Bernhard Willhelm took inspiration for his collection from the dung-gathering rites of scarab beetles, decorating the faces of his living dolls with an application of something that looked a lot like manure. It smelled...