Nothing to Celebrate; When Bush meets Putin this week, he'll have to take a closer look, and plumb the darker depths of Putin's soul.(George W. Busn)(Vladimir Putin)

Publication: Newsweek

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Byline: Frank Brown (With Andrew Nagorski, Richard Wolffe and Eve Conant in Washington)

An odder couple used to be hard to imagine. The term "politician" described Vladimir Putin the way "career KGB man" applied to George Bush. Not at all, that is. Still, the two presidents somehow managed to hit it off from the start. "I looked the man in the eye," Bush said after their first summit, in June 2001. "I was able to get a sense of his soul--a man deeply committed to his country." This week the two leaders will meet again, in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava....

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