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...weeks ago, the vice president of the Russian Federation, Alexander Rutskoi, quietly informed U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss about an early version of a speech that had been prepared for Boris Yeltsin to deliver last Monday, on the eve of Gorbachev's departure for Madrid. The draft declared the U.S.S.R. defunct and Yeltsin's government the protector of 25 million ethnic Russians in the outlying republics...
LAST WEEK, the Cambridge City Council passed a "home rule" petition that would make prescription marijuana available for medicinal purposes within the city. The petition officially asks the Massachusetts state legislature to authorize Cambridge to take advantage of a now-defunct FDA program which granted medicinal marijuana to the desperately...
...vote came after almost two hours of debate and testimony from doctors, activists and medicinal marijuana smokers. With this petition, the council asks the state legislature to authorize Cambridge to take advantage of a now-defunct Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program which has allowed patients to smoke cannabis under heavy supervision...
...probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining NPR in 1974, Totenberg has earned a reputation as Washington's best at covering the federal courts, although critics consider her abrasive and tactless...
...blunted the threat of a Soviet-led blitzkrieg by the Warsaw Pact against Western Europe; START brought about a substantial reduction in MIRVed ICBMs, particularly Soviet ones, the potential instruments of a nuclear-age Pearl Harbor. However, by the time CFE was signed, the Warsaw Pact was nearly defunct, and one of its member states, East Germany, had ceased to exist -- or more to the point, had defected to NATO. Soviet divisions were pulling out of Eastern Europe for reasons that had nothing to do with CFE and everything to do with the anticommunist revolution that had swept the region...