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...secure seats in the Duma, none will enjoy anything near a majority. Zhirinovsky's misleadingly named Liberal Democratic Party stands to claim fewer than 80 seats in the 450-seat lower house of the new bicameral legislature, while reformers will occupy roughly twice that number. A preliminary count suggests that the lower house will be divided almost evenly among democrats, nationalists, Communists and independents -- thus assuring a future of gridlocked misery for the Deputies. Voters also found little cause to celebrate their grand experiment in democracy: nearly as many people stayed home as came out to vote...
...real or sustained interest in artists who are prepared to make a life's work out of the challenge of imbuing real figures and objects with strong plastic meaning in deep space. There are a few exemptions, such as Philip Pearlstein, but that is all, unless you want to count Andrew Wyeth's Helgas, those goose-pimply feminine-hygiene ads that are to painting more or less what The Bridges of Madison County is to the novel. It seems that with the single exception of Thomas Eakins, who died more than 75 years ago, this culture has never produced...
Rather than count calories, Montignac measures foods by their "glycemic index," or the blood-sugar level they induce. Sugar, he contends, stimulates the overproduction of insulin, which leads the body to store fat. Thus foods with a high index, such as potatoes and white bread, should not be combined with fats like butter...
...opened it at his home. Zilk was the most prominent victim of a wave of 10 letter bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...
...evenly divided on the brothers' fate. Callers to Court TV, which has devoted 600 hours to the trial, split on the question of whether they believed the brothers or the prosecution; so did a group assembled for Dateline NBC. Now it's up to the only viewers who count -- the jurors -- to decide...