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...chooses its presidents and appoints its prime ministers itself," Tymoshenko told Time. "I'm sure I'll handle the job well." She's certainly got all the right qualifications. Charismatic, competent and driven, Tymoshenko, 44, trained as an economist and launched one of the first Gorbachev-era cooperatives - a chain of videotape-rental shops - in the late 1980s. In 1995 she founded United Energy Systems of Ukraine, which managed Russian natural-gas supplies to energy-starved Ukraine under then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. Her ties to Lazarenko, who was arrested in 1999 and convicted last year...
DIED. WILLIAM BOOTLE, 102, progressive Southern judge who in 1961 ordered the integration of the University of Georgia; in Macon, Ga. In ruling that two black students who had been denied admission--one of them future TV journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault--were "fully qualified," he set in motion a chain of decisions that resulted in the school's integration within a week. "Right is right," Bootle said...
PIERCE BROSNAN In The Matador, the man we've come to know as world-savior James Bond plays a hit man with a wardrobe (Speedo with boots, gold chain) that 007 wouldn't be caught dead...
IKEA, the Swedish home-furnishings giant, is in expansion mode, especially in the U.S. and Russia. Although he is retired, IKEA's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, 78, regularly visits some of the chain's 204 stores in 33 countries. Last month, he talked with TIME's DODY TSIANTAR in the restaurant of the Elizabeth, N.J., store. Some excerpts...
...manufacturing power has contributed to a surplus of global production capacity for all kinds of goods, from sneakers to DVD players to plastic lawn chairs. With the price of raw materials rising and factory profit margins shrinking, blue-collar workers are at the losing end of a long chain of supply and demand...