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...famous ride through South America, and racing champions like Sammy Miller were staunch supporters. In the '90s, under the threat of financial demise, Belstaff was saved by Italian racer, motorcycle designer and fan of the brand Franco Malenotti. Economic concerns eventually forced the company to relocate to Italy, but loyalist Malenotti, by transplanting the factory boss from Britain and continuing to use English materials, has ensured that the label's craftsmanship and quality continue to ride...
...both sides, last a bit longer. An extended truce would give Hamas recognition in its power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sits in the West Bank, and it might lead to the lifting of a crippling economic blockade on Gaza imposed after Hamas swept out Abbas loyalist fighters from the strip last June...
...Medvedev returned the favor and announced that he would in turn endorse Putin as Russia's next Prime Minister. A top Kremlin aide told us the news with great excitement. When we dryly suggested that Putin may possibly have had a hand in Medvedev's decision, even this Kremlin loyalist had to laugh. To heighten the joke, he pretended to be Putin, displaying surprise and elation at the endorsement...
Medvedev's rise means the presidency is now in the hands of a Putin loyalist. Yet that doesn't mean Medvedev will have broad authority. True, since the fall of the Soviet Union, power has been centered in the office of the President. Boris Yeltsin was flawed and ineffective, yet held significant powers. Putin inherited them, enhanced them, and transformed the presidency into a source of pride and respect for many Russians. It didn't hurt, of course, that world prices for oil and other Russian natural resources hit sky-high levels, enabling Putin to dole out favors and goodies...
...been appointed heir to the Bhutto throne as the new chairman of the PPP. But since he is too young, his controversial father, Asif Zardari, will act as regent, making decisions while the chairman grows up. The actual top candidate for the forthcoming elections is another person, party loyalist Maqdoom Amin Fahim...