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...When it knocked Michael Jackson off the number one spot on the Billboard charts and went platinum many times over, it appeared to brush aside single-handedly the peppy Reagan-era pop that had lingered for years after the junk bond party was over, the way Boris Yeltsin had appeared to brush aside the antiquated Communist Party only months earlier. It seemed part and parcel with the end of the cold war, and the illness of the economy: an inevitability...
...Keds. The backyard has become part of the home-improvement trend that market researchers call "fluffing the nest." The grill has entered the world of luxury goods, status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance and totally showy--has become the metal du jour for all early 21st century grills. And where luxury items go, the mass market follows: Coleman released a stainless-steel grill this...
...Putin can't afford to simply buy the Bush line on NATO expansion, because the Russian president is trying to project the image of a confident, assertive new Russia, ready to stand up for its interests. And accepting NATO expansion onto its doorstep would be a throwback to the Yeltsin foreign policy of rolling over for everything the West demanded, a policy which all of Russia disdains and wants to forget as fast as possible...
...RUSSIA Personal Choices President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on Russia's government with significant changes to the Cabinet that he inherited a year ago from Boris Yeltsin. Out went Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, to be replaced by Putin's closest confidant, Sergey Ivanov. Duma Deputy Boris Gryzlov, who in his first year in high politics has become best known for unquestioning devotion to the President, took over the Interior Ministry from Vladimir Rushailo. And the Defense Ministry acquired its first female deputy minister, financial specialist Lyubov Kudelina...
Back in the early '90s, Russia's President Boris Yeltsin cut the number of U.S.-based spies in a show of goodwill. The U.S. cut its Russian operations too, all but closing down its Moscow shop, according to retired CIA officers. But as U.S.-Russian relations cooled in the mid-'90s over NATO expansion, U.S. intervention in the Balkans and Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, both sides gradually reverted to their old ways. By the time current President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer himself, settled into office early last year, the number of Russian spies...