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Having remained in Boris Yeltsin?s fickle employ just long enough for Russians to get attached to him, Yevgeny Primakov is back ?- and he?s brought nearly all of Yeltsin?s enemies with him. The former foreign minister, ex-KGB spymaster and sometime prime minister announced Tuesday he would head up the broad Fatherland-All Russia coalition just formed by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. With Yeltsin having promised to step down in 2000 but looking to install a chosen successor (possibly prime minister du jour Vladimir Putin), Primakov's candid 10-minute speech ?- remarkably full of detail for a Russian...
...arguing that most people can move off the rolls is not the same as saying everyone can. Fred Grandy, former Republican Congressman from Iowa, now heads Goodwill Industries, which finds jobs for those difficult to employ. Grandy believes that almost everyone can work. Goodwill helps the mentally retarded do just that. But he also believes that as reform proceeds, some welfare recipients will not be able to pull their lives together and will need to be protected by a safety net. "Tough love" has its place in welfare reform, he says, but it has its limits. "The work of reform...
...Soep agreed to employ around half of the workers who had been striking against the old contractor, Everett Decorators, to complete the project...
...workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start-ups employ it in lieu of a long-distance budget; home users love it for all those times you just don't want to pick up the phone...
...Harvard employs this contractor," Laughlin said. "They as a University can set standards for the contractors they employ...