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Ryder won't fade soon. Adult roles are imminent; she'll fill the characters as well as the costumes. Once waif thin, she now has a figure so womanly that, after it was on show in a Vogue pictorial, she was accused of having had breast implants. The very notion propels her into a verbal dither. "I'm way too chicken to go under the knife," she says. "The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most -- it's so -- I mean -- it's horrifying to even think about...
...such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...
...slumping Chargers fade with a loss to the positive Steelers (although Pittsburgh might be reluctant to field a full-strength team on Saturday, having locked up home-field advantage two days...
...names. The second, and most excruciating, yielded 50. "It was like selecting the person who is Most Likely to Succeed for the school yearbook," says assistant editor Elizabeth Rudulph, who coordinated research for the project. "You don't want to pick someone who will peak early and then fade." By the same token, says Faith Corman, a free-lance journalist who also worked on the issue, "an overachiever is not the same thing as a leader...
They are gone, we know that, as all seniors eventually must fade from the bench. But last night's performance was the first time that this year's blueliners announced their intention to wave the Harvard banner of defensive supremacy with all the authority of those that went before them, and you can't downplay the significance of such a statement...