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...face charges in London for the Nov. 1 murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Lugovoi is accused of poisoning Litvinenko, a former KGB operative who became a prominent dissident opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the radioactive metalloid polonium 210. The CPS's move, although welcomed by Litvinenko's widow, Marina, and officially backed by the British government, injected fresh toxin into Russian-U.K. relations already weakened by the affair. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett told Russia's ambassador in London, Yuri Fedotov, that the U.K. expects "full cooperation." But Russia's own public prosecutor responded that the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tangling Over a Russian Spy's Murder | 5/22/2007 | See Source »

Having already auctioned Kurt Cobain's diaries, rock widow Courtney Love is selling her deceased husband's personal effects. She told SPINNER.COM, "I still wear his pajamas ... How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt's pajamas?" Actually, that sounds like a great conversation starter. SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 2007 | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...Wende Doohan, widow of "Scotty," launced the rocket and astronaut Cooper's widow, Suzan, was also on hand with her daughters to see her husband become the first U.S. astronaut to return to space in the afterlife. "Obviously, I'll be revisiting some old emotions, but this will be nowhere as emotional as it was watching him go into space when he was alive," she said before the launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beaming Up Scotty | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...sought a name that would transform me as much as the dentists and kindergarten teachers who forgot their inhibitions and became “Shred Kennedys” or “Twisted Sisters” once inside a house of air.I ultimately settled on “Black Widow,” a handle I hoped would help devour my competition whole. Music and moniker in place, I honed my air skills until the night of competition arrived.“It’s a very challenging and frightening thing to get up in front of a large...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AIR TO THE THRONE | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...find a movie where women are as plentiful and powerful as men. 300, the Spartan workout video, has one important female role, of King Leonidas' wife (Lena Headey); that leaves 299 for the guys. In Shooter, the hero-on-the-run gets brief assistance from a young widow (Kate Mara) before returning to his mission of evaporating a million bad guys. Girlish Jon Heder, one of the two skaters in the Will Ferrell hit Blades of Glory, does have a love interest (Jenna Fischer), but Ferrell doesn't--unless it's Heder. Indeed, the one big new movie fully populated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: Why Can't a Woman ... Be a Man? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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