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Yeltsin's electoral triumph, on the other hand, was relatively unclouded. In Russia 70% of the voters said they wanted an elected President. But the route from the chairmanship of the republic's parliament, the position Yeltsin now holds, to the presidency is not unobstructed. This week, for example, he faces a parliamentary no-confidence vote, called by conservative Communists in an attempt to dump him from the chairmanship he narrowly won last May. If Yeltsin passes that test, he must then push through constitutional changes to create the presidency...
Harvard lured this intellectual luminary to Cambridge by offering him the chairmanship of the Afro-Am Department, the directorship of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute and an undoubtedly substantial salary. Now the administration must prove it can attract lesser-known junior faculty in the field. Two professors do not a department make, even if one of them is among the best in the business. And Harvard has a responsibility to develop younger scholars in the field--not merely to raid the upper echelons of other universities' faculties...
...stay in the federation, he took no chances. Stepping in with a request to rule by decree if necessary, Havel warned that if democracy failed, "we would be cursed by future generations." Negotiators took the hint and produced a compromise: joint stock ownership of utilities and a rotating chairmanship of the central bank. But a perverse question continues to haunt the new democracies eager to join modern Europe's mainstream: What if the right to choose translates into the decision to say "No, thanks" to democracy...
...last Monday, Bennett was saying his earlier remarks had been "overinterpreted." White House aides tried to revise recent history by implying that Bennett had overstated his brief. No decision had been made about politicking on quotas in the future, they maintained. Bennett's withdrawal from the chairmanship was not immediately related to the issue. The main cause was the belated realization by Bennett and White House counsel Boyden Gray that conflicts of interest would be a far more serious problem than earlier thought...
...engagements for business audiences. As a recent incumbent of high federal office, Bennett could face restrictions on activities that might be construed as lobbying. To take plump fees from private industry while enjoying regular access to the Oval Office could easily create the appearance of impropriety. Though the party chairmanship pays $125,000 a year, Bennett said, "I didn't take a vow of poverty...