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...President, who rarely visits with reporters, Mrs. Bush was chatty, constantly available, eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...Russian Exuberance Should we call it a Russian rebound? Not yet. Moscow's stock exchange soared 3% midweek, after the rating agency Moody's upgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating by two notches to Baa3. Although the bourse ended the week on a flatter note - and the other top rating agencies, S&P and Fitch, held off following Moody's example - it's clear Russia has come a long way from the 1998 crash, and is once again an attractive investment opportunity. Giddy investors would do well to keep things in perspective, though: Moody's is considering downgrading El Salvador...
...lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump into Hitler, as played by a Russian actor, begging for forgiveness; or a snake handler with a boa constrictor that's meant to represent the serpent in Eden. This may be an unlikely setting for an art show, particularly one that's supposed to celebrate heaven, but don't tell that to Torsten Römer. "The tension...
...roots, everyone is baffled to learn, are in some Shtetls on the Russian-Polish border. I want to explain that my soul has roots in the poetry that’s created here. But I keep my mouth shut, having concluded that behavior considered normal amongst devotees of Phil Fisher’s English 165: “Joyce, Modernism and Aestheticism” class is considered downright loony by everyone else...
...site and suggested it was designed for covert nuclear research. But al-Rawi claims it was rebuilt to produce radar and antiaircraft systems. When TIME visited the plant this summer, there were signs of heavy bombing, but the new building was intact--and carpeted inside with documents in French, Russian, Arabic and English, all having to do with radar equipment, frequencies and trajectories...