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Yeltsin was furious at the Congress for refusing to confirm acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, his handpicked architect of reform. When confronted with a stark choice of submitting or facing the President at the ballot box, the balky Deputies under leader Ruslan Khasbulatov became more inclined to deal. So, on reflection, did Yeltsin. By week's end he had agreed to submit three candidates for Prime Minister and modified his referendum. Although a popular vote would still be Yeltsin's to lose, Russians will not be asked to choose directly between him and the Congress. Instead, they will determine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kremlin Compromise | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...each [Core] category, courses seek tointroduce students to major approaches toknowledge," writes the former dean of the faculty,who was the Core's chief architect. "Choice ispreserved because major approaches are presentedin various forms: courses with differing content...

Author: By Daniel M. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Core Curriculum Still Controversial | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...clearly defined thought." Russians seem so overwhelmed by the sheer enormousness of their country that they would rather settle down by a warm stove, break out a bottle of vodka and muse about life than go out and plow a furrow toward the endlessly receding horizon. A leading Moscow architect maintains that this sense of the horizontal is so strong in Russian minds that it is hard to find a straight vertical line anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...years traveling widely and knew the leaders." Only the Soviets hoped Nixonwould lose: "They felt Humphrey would be easier to deal with." But when Nixon ran again in 1972, even the Soviets were foursquare in his camp. In their eyes, he was no longer a cold warrior but the architect of detente. That same year, when Nixon visited China, Mao Zedong gave him his blessing, saying, "I like rightists Those on the right can do what those on the left can only talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Why They Backed Bush | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...architect working on the project, Ann C. Borst of DiNisco, Kretsch and Associates, tried to counter the concerns of the residents and councillors...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: City Plans New Senior Center | 11/11/1992 | See Source »

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