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...capitalism and toss it all overboard. The leading candidates to succeed Yeltsin already include Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political views are hard to discern, but he, like Luzhkov, is a firm nationalist. If either were elected President, he would probably arrive in the Kremlin with colleagues even more extreme...
...youthful violence. All of them seemed to understand, at least formally, that what they were doing was wrong. That's what the placement of Bulger's body on the tracks suggests; and the prosecutor of the six-year-old says three doctors concluded that the boy was able to discern right from wrong in the abstract. Similarly, in 1989, after nine-year-old Cameron Kocher shot Jessica Carr, age 7, with a rifle after an argument over Nintendo in their hometown in northeast Pennsylvania, the boy hid the spent cartridge. And after Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer, 11, killed a 14-year...
...were four or five. It was a light pickup; it was a three-ton truck. It bore diplomatic license plates; it had no license plates. The FBI is sorting through all these conflicting stories, feeding them into its state-of-the-art Rapid Start mobile computer system, which can discern similarities in the accounts or subtle patterns of association among seemingly unconnected characters, places or events...
Capuano said that since the politicians were generally on the "same page" on major issues, voters must try to discern which candidate will truly fight for them...
...firm, and Kendall has long-standing ties to Lewinsky's lawyers as well. As one witness after another parades before the grand jury, it is perfectly legal for everyone in this network to share what has been said in the secret proceedings and what they have been able to discern of Starr's strategy...