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...last-minute change of her travel plans. Security sources say the hit bore the marks of the special services, Russia's blanket term for the security police and intelligence bodies. The sources speculate that the killers, reportedly a man and a woman, were either moonlighting security police or former operatives now working for the underworld...
Starovoitova's friends and allies in the democratic movement vowed to unite their fragmented organizations in the wake of the killing. But they also traded accusations with their political enemies. One former Starovoitova ally, Anatoli Chubais, claimed "communists and bandits" were behind the killing. A prominent Starovoitova colleague alleged that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznev, a communist, had ordered it. Some communists retorted that Starovoitova's allies had killed her to create a martyr. A leading communist Deputy accused businessman Boris Berezovsky of ordering the hit. Calmer heads suggested that the murder was connected to a dirty election campaign...
...predict. Last year a Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...
...course, these days not much can shock a state that recently elected as its Governor bald-headed former pro wrestler Jesse ("the Body") Ventura, but the Vikings are sure trying. New team owner Red McCombs, coach Green and a squad of bad boys and second-chancers are defying expectations. Start with Moss. Despite his tainted image, he has emerged as perhaps the league's most exciting wide receiver. And Cris Carter, who admitted to abusing cocaine and alcohol early in his career, is bolstering his standing as the all-time best receiver in Viking history...
NORMAN PEARLSTINE, the editor-in-chief of Time Inc., was our choice to write the introductory essay, as it occurred to us that since this was an issue about bosses, we might as well ask our own boss to contribute (clever, huh?). Pearlstine is a former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and has been covering business for more than three decades...