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...word in the political debate remains impichment, impeachment, an imported term that Russians were using to mean "vote Yeltsin out." That is a mistranslation of the long legal process by which the U.S. can dismiss a President, but Russian parliamentarians are also vague about the concepts of demokratiya, konstitutsiya and zakonnost (legality). Despite much ostentatious talk of legality, post-Soviet Russia is still a place where the law and its institutions are in flux...
...public defender offices strike a common note: they get no respect. "Clients figure if we were really good, we'd be out there making big money," says Maria Cavalluzzi, a Los Angeles public defender. In courthouse waiting areas -- known variously as the | Tombs, the Pits, the Tank -- defendants cavalierly dismiss their free counselors as "dump trucks," a term that reflects their view that public defenders are more interested in dumping cases than mounting rigorous defenses...
...government. Though the American Medical Association and other groups have complained of being cut out of the process, more than 400 task-force officials have held 237 meetings with outside interest groups and have convened more than a thousand private sessions of its working groups. White House aides dismiss critics' complaints of exclusion. "The AMA doesn't just want a seat at the table," says one. "They want the whole bleeping table...
...choose to fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald Swaby) wants direct action, revolutionary action. Isabel (Eliza Gagnon) is afraid that, in the upheaval she knows is necessary for change, Thami will dismiss their friendship as "an old-fashioned idea...
...planted the bomb, a new question -- whether a season of terrorism might begin in the U.S. -- had been raised. In the wake of the explosion, bomb threats forced the evacuation of the Empire State Building and Newark airport. Both threats were false, but no one was ready to dismiss the likelihood of another assault. Around the country, airports and other public facilities stepped up security. The blast was a reminder of the vulnerability of most American office buildings, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. Even the U.S. government has let its guard down since the mid-1980s, when American installations...