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...Bush and Clinton plans are strikingly similar, and both still see the planet as a dangerous place where the occasional use of American force will likely be necessary for decades to come. From there, their prescriptions for dealing with the post-cold war world depart radically. Bush regularly trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev...
Despite efforts by many depart- ments and faculties to cut costs during therecession, Harvard's annual financial report,released last month, reported a $42 milliondeficit...
Around the Tonight offices, the sentiment is starting to get thick. "Everyone in the country has been tied together by Johnny Carson," says co-executive producer Peter Lassally, who, along with De Cordova, will depart from the show when Carson does. "A part of Americana is leaving." Says bandleader Doc Severinsen, who started out in the trumpet section of the Tonight show orchestra in 1962: "In a way, it's agonizing. The ending is going on and on. The pain is being extended -- and there is pain...
Harvard's offense, on the other hand, will be decimated as seniors Jen Minkus, Ginny Simonds, Lauren Messmore, Courtney Hurley and Laurie White and Whyte depart. Junior Kim Landry and Alissi will be left to pick up the slack...
GOVERNMENT RIVALS. One of the government's most outspoken critics is the man legally entitled to take over if Yeltsin should depart: Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. He provided key support when his Communists for Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices...