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Most of Yeltsin's confidants believed the President would be magically re-elected despite the Duma catastrophe, but Braynin thought otherwise. The President, he reasoned, could lose without the same kind of professional assistance U.S. office seekers employ as a matter of course. Braynin began a series of confidential discussions with Yeltsin's aides, including one with First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who at the time was in charge of the President's nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to "find some Americans" but to proceed discreetly. "Secrecy was paramount," says Braynin. "Everyone realized...
...what means would Tigrett employ to help lift humankind to a higher consciousness, to inspire a new generation of truth seekers? Theme restaurants...
...such cases, there is always a second reader. Many departments also employ advanced graduate students in the area to act as thesis readers...
There's a standard explanation that white-run companies employ when they are taken to task for having homogeneous work forces. "Hey," upper-level management types will say, "we looked for qualified folks. There just were no black candidates." It's the old "N.B.C." answer, and in the face of a historic turnabout, the National Broadcasting Co. happens to be using said answer to defend its just-announced fall season. NBC, the network that broadcast the pioneering Cosby Show in the '80s, the network that carried the Nat King Cole Show in the 1950s when virtually no advertisers were willing...
...inserted would hesitate, even freeze, before gingerly choosing one. At times I would avoid using either term, electing to leave the person's race unspecified rather than choose between the two labels. "African-American," though, seems to have largely won out, at least here. (The Crimson continues to employ the term "black.") It's not so clear what the reception has been in the black community at large or in the wider population; polls in 1989 and 1991 showed that most blacks preferred "black," but that may have changed...