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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...
...states--businesses are dipping deeper into the labor pool than ever before. The Welfare to Work Partnership has been placing recovering drug addicts and alcohol abusers in private-sector jobs. Even job applicants with criminal records are getting hired. UPS, for one, has "relaxed" its practice of not hiring ex-cons, says Rodney Carroll, a UPS executive who serves as chief operating officer of the Welfare to Work Partnership...
...Blige is also hard on herself. On Deep Inside, which cleverly incorporates part of Elton John's Bennie and the Jets, she takes a look at her own emotional baggage. On Not Lookin', Blige derides "player sh__" but is confident enough to bring in male singer (and ex-boyfriend) K-Ci Hailey for a sort of vocal debate. Mary is somewhat inconsistent in song quality, but Blige's soul-singed vocals save the weaker material. There are also several high points: on Don't Waste Your Time, Aretha Franklin and Blige stage a soulful summit meeting on trifling...
...also attempting to block a settlement for Rebecca reached by the Chittums, Rogerses and the state for the same reason. The case is on appeal before the Supreme Court of Virginia. Johnson's attorney, John Blakely, did not return phone calls last week seeking comment. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, Carlton Conley, is suing the state and hospital officials for $4 million. He triggered the discovery of the switched babies when he balked at more child support for Callie. To certify his paternity, he had his blood tested. The results: not only wasn't he Callie's father, but Paula Johnson...
LINDA TRIPP Indicted for wiretapping her ex-friend. Should have read that Ya Ya Sisterhood book...