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...Yeltsin did not want to make a martyr. The President's career had, after all, been made when he was dismissed from the Soviet communist leadership. Lebed has been feeling thwarted ever since going into the government in June, in what was seen at the time as a brilliant move by Yeltsin campaign organizer Chubais. Lebed took the job expecting to be both heir apparent and acting President. But other equally ambitious politicians--Chubais, who was named presidential chief of staff after the elections, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin--had no intention of handing over power. Lebed found himself increasingly...
...Dear Mr. Sidey, My must reading includes every week your perceptive and brilliant columns ... However, I wonder if you really are portraying an accurate picture of this man? From your columns I would get the impression that he was introverted, humorless, rather plotting [sic] and not particularly exciting in his conduct of the Presidency ... I think for your own credibility you ought to correct the image you have left. I don't mean that I like him (frankly I would have to classify myself as a Lindsey [sic] Republican ...) I feel this so strongly, because I detest Vice President Agnew...
...revenues via benefit plans, human-resources-administration duties and payrolls--raise concerns about the company's focus and privacy issues? Fidelity's access to personal information in these areas would no doubt give the firm a leading edge on target marketing and family life-style offerings. The strategy is brilliant in keeping Fidelity revenues smooth, but it scares me to death. George Orwell's only flaws in prediction were in the timing and the number of Big Brothers we will have in this brave new world of electronic commerce. RICHARD CARREAU Vernon, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian rebellion, Ms. Robison boldly asserts that the ends of creating the most tonally brilliant and resonant music possible are well worth the means of a little historical fibbing and instrumental miscegnation...
DIED. SEYMOUR CRAY, 71, of injuries resulting from a car crash; in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall...