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Then Yeltsin did the same to the Minister of Internal Affairs, General Anatoli Kulikov, the hard-line chief of 500,000 police and 257,000 well-equipped internal troops. The President paused then for a chat with Minister of Defense Igor Sergeyev and federal security chief Nikolai Kovalev. Just routine...
Of the two, Yumashev seems to be emerging as the more forceful political figure. "His role is enormous," says Boris Berezovsky, banker and power broker with close ties to both the chief of staff and the daughter. "He enjoys the President's total confidence." Another influential figure in the world...
"An academic career demands an enormous amount of work for comparatively little compensation," he says.
Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is more exuberant. Government projections, he notes, are based on a 4% yearly increase in tax revenues--but, in fact, revenues have risen an average of 7% for the past five or six years. If...
One near life-size, black silhouette in Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like...