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...tunnel. "We're taking out the dead, or what's left of them," said a rescue worker. "You don't want to know what happened to them." The death toll was expected to rise, but could have been even higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm. Could they be getting used...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia
Warning Signal It was almost as if U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had two sets of meetings in Moscow last week. Russian officials say he spent a "friendly and constructive" time with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But by the U.S. account, there was a "spirited" exchange in which Powell praised U.S.-Russian relations but dwelt in unusual detail on the Kremlin's dark side, warning that relations with the U.S. would ultimately be damaged if Russia failed to address concerns about its apparent slide toward authoritarianism. And in an op-ed in the Russian daily Izvestia, Powell wrote that...
Since he assumed the presidency of the Russian Federation in January 2000, Vladimir V. Putin has slowly but surely consolidated his power, all the while keeping his public approval ratings in the 70 percent range. After systematically banishing, locking up or otherwise neutralizing many of his most outspoken rivals—and taking over their TV stations—Putin has pulled Russia into what scholars now dub “managed democracy.” In this nice little arrangement, the Russian president and the party he supports submit to relatively free democratic elections, but use state control over...
...magazine?s roster of contributors was as distinguished as any in English-language journalism. Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and such cartoonists as Dedini, Barsotti, Kliban: they could be the front table at a New Yorker banquet. Skeptics suspected that Hefner got the second-best from the best, or work the New Yorker had rejected, and that Playboy settled for B material from the A team in order to appropriate their literary celebrity. Some folks in publishing had a dismissive term for Playboy fiction: ?shit from names...