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This smorgasbord of candidates will confront Russian voters on Dec. 12 in the country's first parliamentary elections without a Czar or communist overlord. It is a landmark the historic import of which is exceeded only by the confusion that surrounds the array of parties elbowing one another for a place at the table. On the same day voters choose their new representatives, they will also pass judgment on a draft constitution that dramatically strengthens the power of the President and opens Boris Yeltsin to the charge that he is less interested in building democracy than in consolidating...
...local Holiday Inn to negotiate her raise. He also regularly responded to her with remarks like "You're a woman; what do you know?" and called her "a dumb-ass woman." Said Harris: "It got to the point that I didn't have any choice but to confront him. I had had enough." When he failed to change, she quit. "I felt so hopeless," she said. "I just can't tell you how terrible it was." She also sued. Lower courts, however, found that Hardy's comments were not "so severe as to be expected to seriously affect her psychological...
Navarrette relishes confrontation. He writes that his beliefs cause him to be "arrogant and overbearing," that he was in a "nose-to-nose shouting match" with Cesar Chavez, and he was booed off the stage of my high school in Fresno, California last year. Navarrette insists that youths who read his book have the right to "confront" him and "take his head off." Navarrette is a man of extremes. He can admit that Cesar Chavez was a great leader of the Mexican-American people, yet claims that he confronted Chavez because the leader was losing touch with his followers...
Women who work in the corporate world constantly confront employment discrimination, said eight professional women at a Law School panel discussion Saturday...
...says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns are a refreshing departure. They provide escape, but also a chance to confront issues of universal significance and spiritual weight: a history lesson, but also a reminder of the imaginative power of myth and allegory. All that and a lot of pretty scenery...