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Americans liked this Yeltsin, though -- his thumbs-up optimism, the hint of brash informality that underlay his new seriousness, his climb from underdog to winner. The next test, said Republican Senator Richard Lugar, member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is "how effective an executive he is." That means they'll like him even more if he delivers...
...Like a brash rookie slugger who can't handle big-league curves, the National sports daily struck out last week. The flashy tabloid, owned by Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, never really connected with readers and advertisers, and it lost $100 million in just 17 months of publication. Its problems were compounded by "an economic climate that was getting worse and worse," said editor and publisher Frank Deford. Declaring WE HAD A BALL on its final front page, the first U.S. daily devoted entirely to sports printed its final edition last Thursday...
Montagnier said he knew why the viruses matched: he had sent Gallo samples of the virus in 1983. Though Montagnier did not accuse Gallo of intentional wrongdoing, the revelation raised suspicions that the brash American had snatched both the virus and the discovery from the French. Gallo, however, insisted that the American version of the virus was homegrown...
...bailing out Trump with a rescue package that gave him $65 million in new loans and eased credit terms on his bank debt, Trump's bankers last week stopped the game. Already more than $3.8 billion in the hole and sliding perilously close to a mammoth personal bankruptcy, the brash New York developer had no choice but to accept the dismantling of his vast holdings. Meeting round the clock at secret Manhattan locations, Trump's lawyers and bankers by week's end had begun to hammer out a complex series of agreements on the distribution of some of his assets...
...made his share of rash promises -- to provide all Muscovites with an apartment by the year 2000, say, or to achieve a measurable improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired 40% of the party hacks who ran the city. Says Mikhail Poltaranin, a Yeltsin adviser who edited the pro-Yeltsin Moskovskaya Pravda in 1987: "When he was being attacked, he had to defend himself, and it was very...