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...near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure. Her enemies--particularly Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former chief bodyguard, and the ousted national security adviser Alexander Lebed--complain loudly that Chubais is manipulating Dyachenko. In a recent interview, Korzhakov claimed that Chubais prepares key documents that Dyachenko then persuades her ailing father to sign. Lebed remarked scornfully in another recent interview that like any woman, Dyachenko is "impressionable." Their outrage is understandable. She played a significant role...
Reich definitely sends us a mixed message throughout the essay. On the one hand, he admits that a shmo in his position is in reality "doubly blessed." Someone so blessed cannot really complain, he continues. Here, Reich is the voice of reason and humility. His choice is not so much a trail as a divine gift. And to confuse the two, it seems, would be sacrilege...
Most students are too embarrassed of the actions for which they are Ad Boarded to complain about the process. As I have nothing to hide and am not embarrassed about my actions, I hereby relinquish my right to confidentiality on everything that has to do with my Ad Board decision, so as to preclude further filibustering by the administration. Anyone who has questions about the Ad Board or the specifics of my case can e-mail me at kirtley@fas.harvard.edu. Hopefully, through my bad luck, the Ad Board can be demystified and made fair for future students...
...taking out personal loans from the likes of the Perry County Bank and ordering his chief fixer, Bruce Lindsey, to hand out tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments to encourage voter turnout in the Arkansas Delta. The last-minute push continues to this day: Washington lobbyists complain that Democratic fund raisers were resorting to daily cold calls to donors through last week, even telephoning corporate check writers at home. It seemed to be working: in the first 16 days of October, the D.N.C. brought in $10.5 million, nearly half of that in large, soft-money contributions...
Many student leaders also complain that they are not kept well-informed of their group's application status...