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Though it briefly seemed that the days of Sputnik had returned, Americans can stop worrying that Russia is winning the race to put boy bands in space. Early last week 'N Sync's LANCE BASS reported that he was negotiating to visit the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, an idea hatched by the Amsterdam-based MirCorp. When MirCorp approached Bass, he enthusiastically embraced the proposal, issuing a statement saying he was "looking forward to completing this lifelong dream." But by week's end the Russian space agency said it was not MirCorp's prerogative to book passengers aboard...
Sarah Hughes' performance was the pinnacle of a figure-skating competition tarnished by a judging scandal in the pairs competition that resulted in two gold-medal awards. It also had to withstand a protest by a cranky Russian Olympic federation demanding gold for Slutskaya and threatening to leave the Games over assorted alleged judging improprieties. Hughes refocused attention on the outstanding performances these Olympics offered across a menu of winter sports, before crowds that were full and festive despite an unprecedented level of security...
...unlikely, since her program was not as well constructed as Hughes'--her performance would decide whether Kwan or Hughes would become champion. If Slutskaya finished ahead of Kwan in the long program, which is worth two-thirds of the total score, then Hughes would win. If the Russian finished behind Kwan, then Kwan would...
...novel was a best seller in its native Russia, where it appeared under the title Generation P--that's P as in Pepsi. It's the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a miserable adman hired by greedy mobsters to translate American jingles and adapt them for a newly capitalistic Russian marketplace. Tatarsky stands in for a whole generation trapped between a discredited Soviet past and a banal, Westernized future, and the absurdity of the situation sends him hunting through the seamy Muscovite underworld for some meaning at the bottom of it all. That he is coached...
RUSSIA They Seek Him Here Even as Russian Interpol spokesman Igor Tsiryulnikov was announcing that Victor Bout, wanted by Interpol on charges of arming the al-Qaeda network, "for sure is not in Russia," Bout was giving a live interview to Ekho Moskvi radio, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Bout, who runs his air-cargo empire from the United Arab Emirates, denied allegations of illegal arms trafficking in the interview and confirmed that he "never had any problems traveling across Russia...