Pink Floyd singer-guitarist David Gilmour told reporters backstage
that it was the power of Bob Geldof’s persuasion that accomplished
what no one or nothing else had been able to do – getting him and
Roger Waters to agree on their first performances together in 24 years.
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The day began here with Paul McCartney and
U2 joining forces,
climaxed with the emotionally charged reunion of iconic ’70s rock
band Pink Floyd and wrapped with an all-star cast singing the
Beatles’ “Hey Jude.”
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The face of 3-year-old Birhan Woldu as she was near death, shown in a
film about Ethiopian famine during the Live Aid concert in 1985,
provided one of that event’s most jolting images.
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For book lovers here, June can be the cruelest month.
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When he was arrested with his three older brothers for kicking a
tramp to death, 10-year-old Volodya Yakovlev was still a round-faced kid
from a problem family in deprived outer Moscow.
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The ruble shed 38% of its value in a renewed downward slide
Wednesday amid fears that Russia’s new government plans to print
money–and probably provoke still-higher inflation–in an attempt to get
out of economic crisis.
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Worried that they will be destroyed by the financial and political
collapse in the Russian capital, the far-flung regions of this giant
country are trying to save themselves by getting out from under Moscow’s thumb.
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President Boris
N. Yeltsin tied up some loose ends Saturday in his
long-drawn-out battle to change prime ministers as he fired his glib,
sophisticated spokesman, who according to Russian media had thrown in his
lot with the wrong candidate for premier.
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Yevgeny
M. Primakov, nominated Thursday to be Russia’s next prime
minister, is a veteran Soviet-era politician who since the fall of
communism has headed the foreign intelligence service and, most recently,
served as a hawkish foreign minister hostile to the West’s plans for
NATO expansion.
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Retreating for a day from Russia’s political turmoil, President
Boris
N. Yeltsin refrained Tuesday from naming a candidate for prime
minister, who must win approval from a defiant parliament.
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