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...grim satisfaction. Its an indication of just how far Russian democracy has progressed that Russian politicos are playing conventional, albeit spirited, electoral politics instead of plotting a takeover. Instead of facing a right-wing takeover attempt like the one that briefly imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev five years ago, Yeltsin must fend off verbal gibes from Lebed. "Its not a country, its a circus," Lebed said Thursday in leaving the government. Lebed's split with Yeltsin has been some time coming; their 11th hour alliance clearly more of an inspired election gambit than a reasoned partnership. Even when the two were allegedly...
...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...Finally, they also left behind 1,500 members of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group based in Erbil, to whom the CIA had given financing, arms and--the I.N.C. now claims--an implicit understanding that if anything went wrong, these U.S. allies would not be abandoned to fend for themselves...
Nouveau number-one Yale, on the other hand, finds itself stuck in a cycle of turmoil. During the last few years, it has been in a struggle to overcome financial instability and labor strife. During the spring semester, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves at mealtime when the dining service workers went on strike. Earlier in the year, Yalies were locked out of their own classrooms when teaching fellows there battled the administration. And unlike Princeton students, Harvard sophomores have never had to live in trailers. Whatever our problems as Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent...
...sees Charlotte as "a smug overworked yuppie" and Riker as an uncultured legal drone. Riker is also a Jew, which puts Schmidt in the awkward position of being branded a bigot because he does not enthusiastically welcome him into his family. To complicate the issue, Schmidt must vigorously fend off Riker's mother, an overzealous psychiatrist who treats him as if he were a repressed Wasp. What she does not know is that Schmidt is having a hell of a good time in bed with the 20-year-old Hispanic waitress who also serves him his regular chopped steak...