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...proceeded to excoriate the plump party leaders and condemn "our tables groaning with sturgeon and caviar" bought at special stores closed to ordinary citizens. He ended by asking to be relieved of his duties, a favor the Party eventually granted by firing him from the Politburo early in 1988. To Yeltsin, it seemed to be the end of his career. "Perhaps the hardest period of my whole life was after my expulsion from the Politburo," he later wrote. "Gorbachev didn't send me into Siberian exile or to some far-flung foreign country; he put me in charge of construction...
...fails again to win the Democratic nomination? “Kucinich [has] more experience so he seems less afraid of taking strong stances,” says James E. Goldschmidt ’09, who attended the event. “Every Democrat running for President has to condemn the war, but they’re all going to do it differently.” Erika C. Helgen ’08 agrees that Kucinich is unique. “I think Kucinich is particularly interesting because he’s not your normal mainstream candidate,” Helgen...
...vote, to be held online from noon today until noon on Friday, will ask students to approve or condemn a UC proposal that calls for a longer winter break and a fall exam period ending before the December vacation...
...Whoever does not condemn Israeli military incursions...is not morally qualified to have an opinion on suicide bombing,” he said, drawing applause from part of the audience. “It’s Israel that occupies Palestine, not Palestine that occupies Israel...
...government Southern African Development Community summit met in Tanzania. In its ranks were other veterans of the fight against colonialism, like South African President Thabo Mbeki, many of whose supporters sympathize with Mugabe's demonization of the West as racist. Despite worldwide calls for censure, the conference refused to condemn Mugabe's leadership and affirmed Zimbabwe's right to noninterference. Mbeki was asked to act as mediator between the government and the opposition, but Mbeki told the Financial Times, "Whether we succeed or not is up to the Zimbabwean leadership. None of us in the region has any power...