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Putin was always diminutive--today he is only 5 ft. 9 in.--a small, diligent boy who compensated for his size by learning martial arts. He quickly mastered sambo, a Russian style of self-defense, and later switched to judo, which he practices at black-belt status. "It's not just a sport, you know," he told interviewers in the official biography that appeared in Russia last week. "It's a philosophy. It's respect for your elders, for your opponent; there are no weak ones there." And something else: "You must hit first and hit so hard that your...
...schoolboy Putin too who first conceived of a career in the KGB. Tamara Stelmakova, now 70, still teaches at School 281, the secondary school specializing in chemistry that Volodya attended at 14. She remembers an ordinary boy who stood out mainly for his "beautiful" reports on "political information" in the mandatory Marxist ideology class. Volodya, she recalls, was "always speaking as if he knew what he was talking about," mesmerizing his audience with his smooth delivery. She recalls him as a well-mannered student with poor grades in chemistry, good grades in history and German, and "always...
Among all the images of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez that we've seen since he was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving, the most poignant is his handwriting. Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case...
...Washington attorney Gregory Craig, who defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, has entered the fray as Juan Miguel's lawyer--raising hopes for a quicker end to the case. But Craig, who told TIME he took the job in part because he too has a six-year-old boy, says not even he knows yet when the father will come for Elian...
...permanent resident of the U.S. and insisting that his future be decided as a custody case by a family court. Gore's announcement, which will almost certainly stiffen the resolve of Elian's Miami relatives to defy the INS demand that they sign a pledge to hand the boy over once they've exhausted their appeal process, appears designed to court Florida's Cuban-American voters, but may spark something of a backlash elsewhere. "It's difficult to see how this can actually help him," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The Cuban-American exile leadership is staunchly Republican...