Hunky Vlad, slim Sarko -- playing with PR fire
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Time was, all a politician had to do to look good was kiss a baby. These days, projecting the right image is getting a whole lot more strenuous.
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Call it the presidential candidates' striptease. White House hopefuls aren't willing to just declare they're running, but rather are flirting with the idea as long as possible. First, they show some leg with an exploratory committee, then plenty of skin with a pronouncement on a faux news program or a late-night show and finally they bare all with a ruffles-and-flourish formal announcement.
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Presidential candidates cite intent to improve US stature, but retooling policies is complicated.
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MOSCOW -- They are an odd trio: a chess grandmaster, a flamboyantly controversial radical and a suave former insider. Together they have embarked on a political quest that seems not merely quixotic but hopelessly so: regime change in Russia.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 1--When Karl Skala used a Web-based message board last week to announce plans for an upcoming campaign function, he didn't think much about it.
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by RN Eastern Europe editor Margreet Strijbosch, 25 October 2004. A Russian-born millionaire has turned Lithuanian politics on its head.
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One Fool's got a "naughty" list beyond CEOs.
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And other revelations from Bob Shrum's No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner. An exclusive excerpt
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Business & money: Â·  British Gas owner Centrica may be target of Russians Â·  Putin shrugs off warning by Blair on economic ties
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The old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity for a celebrity is getting a workout these days -- and so far appears to be holding true.
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Some are born to rule, others to  ridicule is a worthy reminder to U.S presidential hopefuls  struck by an endless arsenal of satirical barbs on the Web.
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Somehowâtalent, maybe?âMartin Cruz Smith has found a way to make his Arkady Renko series always live up to the promise of 'Gorky Park.'
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Who looks like President Vladimir  Putin, speaks and moves like Putin -- but is not the man  himself?
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Oh, that Rupert Murdoch! He's so hot right now!
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MOSCOW, Feb. 1 -- Every Sunday morning, two favorites of President Vladimir Putin play prominent supporting roles on a television game show called "Happy Bus." In sunny clips spliced into the show's airtime, Dmitri Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov hand out awards and urge young people in general to live...
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Media & professional: Ned Temko brings together the men behind the New Statesmen and Spectator.
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Their relationships with two of the world&#39;s most famous men brought international scandals -- but Monica Lewinsky and Rebecca Loos both used the media onslaught to boost their bank balances.