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Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov is a hunted man these days. As a crowd of journalists tailed him on one of his traditional weekend walkabouts through Moscow building sites awash in wet snow and mud, he tried his best to look the jaunty, workaholic city boss of old. But when the journalists cornered him, the mayor admitted that his mind was elsewhere. He was waiting for the next body blow from the Kremlin...
That doesn't seem likely. Although The New York Times newsroom is reportedly awash in hysterics over how to cover the millennium--whether or not the Gray Lady should give in to the poor math of the mob--no one else really cares. For most of us, those three zeroes are pretty convincing...
...deficit, however. Now the payoff is here. In the fiscal year just ended, Uncle Sam rolled up a $123 billion surplus, by far the biggest in the nation's history. Even the non-Social Security part of the government about broke even. Suddenly, Capitol Hill is expecting to be awash in cash...
...York City's Fifth Avenue not far from Tiffany's gems sits a different kind of jewel box: a 20,000-sq.-ft. pleasure palace awash in cool shades of celery and dove and replete with overstuffed furniture and antiques. Top stylists have been lured to snip and color hair, usually after guests have had massages, facials, mudpacks, herbal wraps or nail services. "With career and mothering, I don't have time," says TV producer Colleen Growe, 39. But every few weeks, she'll break away for a leisurely manicure, haircut and massage. "Just walking down the hall feels luxurious...
...Monday, many people realized for the first time that Dan Quayle was actually trying to run for president. Unfortunately for the former veep, this burst of much-needed attention comes only as a result of his decision to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination. Awash in debt, his campaign has struggled not only with financial issues but also what could politely be called a credibility gap ? the shadow of Quayle?s infamous "potatoe" gaffe and his talent for the non-sequitur ("Had I known I was going to Latin America, I would have studied...