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Thanks to its rumored $50 million price tag and A-list pedigree, the Greenwich has all the makings of a hotel blockbuster. With the rooms already booking up fast, perhaps De Niro might consider a sequel...
Since then, however, two high-profile business scandals have given Westerners further pause for thought. In July, Putin - who has apparently lost none of his influence since shifting from President to Prime Minister in May - leveled accusations of price gouging and tax evasion at one of the nation's biggest steelmakers, Mechel, sending its New York-listed stock plummeting. With memories of Yukos' fate still fresh, investors didn't stop there: Putin's comments wiped tens of billions of dollars off Russia's stock market in a matter of days. The Mechel furore came on top of an ugly, months...
...perhaps a bigger force now than any of these. McCain may perceive Obama's enormous celebrity as a weakness - workhorse vs. show horse - but celebrity has its benefits. Obama will accept the nomination in front of a crowd of 76,000 in Denver's professional-football stadium, and the price of a free ticket is to register as a campaign volunteer...
...There's been wide consensus for a long time in France that when the right times come, the army must be used - even if the price to pay for that will be the loss of soldiers," says François Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "Once the shock of these deaths eases, people won't ask whether we can stand the losses - we obviously can. Nor will it be whether this is a legitimate and important war for global stability - it is. Debate will focus on how we get down to business...
...Right now, he says, "Russians are continuing the occupation but in a different shape. They are moving back from Gori but they are advancing in other places. Now it's totally up to the good will of the Russians. Why should they pull back? They are not paying any price for what they are doing." For this he blames an internationally brokered ceasefire agreement which he claims is "ambiguous and very weak." He says he never expected U.S. military intervention, but that he had expected America to "to tell Russia to put on the brakes and stop...