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...covered up Bush's alarming lack of command of the issues. He may have a star-studded group of advisers at the ready, but what happens when Colin Powell and Condalezza Rice disagree over whether to go to war, say, in the Middle East? If you want to watch Vladimir Putin, Jiang Zemin and Saddam Hussein eat George W. for breakfast while we blow $60 billion or more erecting an ineffective and geopolitically destabilizing anti-missile system, vote Bush-Cheney...
Russia seemed hopelessly behind the curve. Despite a blizzard of phone calls from Western leaders asking Russia to come out in support of the opposition's electoral win, the government of Vladimir Putin dithered. The Russian inclination was to side with the observance of prevailing law, even if these laws were written to support a strongman or being manipulated to keep one in power. Moscow fervently wished to retain its influence with its dear Slavic brother Slobodan. And it was convinced the whole business was a NATO plot to subjugate Yugoslavia. So Moscow basically did nothing until faced with...
...this picture, Vladimir Putin...
...Karelin enjoys advantages unknown to other athletes. "There's not another wrestler in the world who travels with a helicopter and a massager and two or three doctors and coaches," declares Ghaffari, who says he and Karelin regard each other with mutual respect. Small wonder that when Russian President Vladimir Putin's Unity Party needed a boost last year, it picked Karelin to run for a legislative seat. Today the wrestler denies rumors that he wants to be President. "It's a totally different level of responsibility," he says, "and I am not ready for it." Just running for parliament...
...While the power summit marks President Clinton's curtain call on the international stage, it has been the U.N. debut for Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who appears to have reveled in the attention. Like an emerging rock star not yet comfortable with his celebrity, Putin has the disarming - in more ways than one - habit of signing autographs for just about anyone who asks. So when he finished a late-night press conference Thursday, he found himself mobbed by journalists and officials seeking his John Hancock on any available piece of paper. Simply to catch his breath, he was finally...