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...Former council president Beth A. Stewart '00 accused the EC of having a Machiavellian instinct--deciding on a desired outcome, then fitting an explanation...
Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 is a committed supporter of Gore's main opponent in the Democratic Party, former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley...
Gergen, an former adviser to both Republican Democratic presidents, also talked about McCain's "crusty demeanor," which he suggested was inherited from the candidate's father and grandfather, who were both also named John McCain and who both served as four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy...
...Overall, the election is likely to be good news for both Yeltsin and his appointed successor, Putin. A strong showing by Unity, as well as the pro-Kremlin Union of Right-Wing Forces headed by former prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko, will create a solid pro-Kremlin bloc in the traditionally anti-Kremlin legislature. That's an effect primarily of the Chechnya war, although it also illustrates that Russian politics is something of a funhouse mirror to multiparty democracy. Russia's communist-era nomenklaturacontinue to compete for power among themselves in an ever-shifting series of hidden transactions, in which party...
...When Yeltsin named Putin as his successor in August, the former KGB officer had a popularity rating of less than 1 percent. Now, Russian pollsters are saying, he's a shoo-in for next year's presidential election. But the Chechnya war that propelled him to the top could also drag him down. Russian public support for the campaign is premised on the fact of Russia's suffering minimal casualties. A videotape to back Western news reports of more than 100 Russian soldiers lying in the wreckage of a tank column ambushed in Grozny could seriously affect his poll ratings...