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...Losers PETER BUCK Giving happy people shiners? Guitarist for the American rock group R.E.M. is arrested for assaulting two British Airways crew members ANATOLI KARPOV Rooked with his own petard! Russian chess champ loses to a Greek dental student who studied the master's moves on the Internet JENNA BUSH A chip off the presidential block? George W.'s 19-year-old daughter is ticketed for booze possession in Austin, Texas. That's a crime...
...Last year there were 13 cases of searches and arrests of journalists by regional cops," says Oleg Panfilov, whose Moscow-based Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations monitors pressure on the Russian media. "In the first four months of this year there have been 15 such cases. [President Vladimir] Putin wants to mop up the entire information field [and] has sent the local political bosses a clear sign that they can beat their media into shape...
...folks have mocked Dennis Tito, the billionaire amateur astronaut, for writing a check to live out his dream of space travel - and even more people have criticized the cash-starved Russian space program for accepting his $20 million for an uncomfortable seat on the international space station...
...always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. reelection turned their backs on Washington. That such a scenario would unfold on this particular vote at this particular time was entirely unpredictable, a Russian diplomat told TIME, "This was incredible... How could the U.S. allow itself to be voted off the commission? How could the State Department not realize what was happening?" But that the U.S. would at some point find itself shunned by its allies in the international forum may have been inevitable...
Eventually she found her way to Oleg Cassini, a French-born Russian turned naturalized American and a onetime Hollywood costume designer. Cassini gave her Americanized versions of French designs, clean lined, in the bright, solid colors she preferred, but with oversize buttons and coat pockets that his Hollywood experience told him would stand out in photographs. She also patronized American clothiers who made licensed copies of French fashions. The red wool dress she wore for her television tour of the White House in 1962 was a line-for-line replica of a Marc Bohan dress for Dior. All the while...