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...When the horizon clears after last week's turmoil, one of its most visible consequences will be the insistent question of Gorbachev's lack of democratic legitimacy. The constitutionality of his office was upheld, but not his personal claim to it. Yeltsin emerged as a formidable political force because he was elected by popular vote. The same was true of Mayor Anatoli Sobchak of Leningrad and others who rallied the hundreds of thousands to oppose the coup. Gorbachev is not even a popularly elected member of parliament, and its communist members are largely responsible for making him President...
...City, near the center of the U.S. but isolated from everything. You reach it by a two-lane highway that snakes through the Ozark Mountains with nothing but oak trees for company. You round a corner and -- Look! -- there is a line of campers and cars stretching to the horizon, crawling along a five-mile strip of neon lights that flash from theaters, motels and miniature golf courses...
...drug DDC is one of the few hopes on the dark horizon of an AIDS patient. Recent studies, including one reported at last month's International Conference on AIDS in Florence, have shown that DDC, formally known as dideoxycytidine, can reduce the activity of the AIDS virus, especially in combination with the medication AZT. Although Hoffman-La Roche has made the drug available to 4,000 participants in a research program, many people remain ineligible because they are on other anti-AIDS drugs or do not yet have symptoms of the disease. But the major obstacle is that the drug...
...case of posthurricane depression? A literal-minded reader could argue that. But Humphreys puts the ill wind to figurative and far better uses. A white piano partially sunk in the marsh, a detached spiral staircase coiled against the horizon suggest fresh ways of seeing...
...Dinkins, Governor Mario Cuomo and legions of curbstone commentators have used in recent weeks. The town that likes to think of itself as the capital of the universe is, in a word, broke. Within days there may be no money to pay its 243,000 employees, and on the horizon there is only more red ink and pain. In 1975 the city pulled itself up from a similar fate, but this time, officials insist, the situation is even worse. The recession -- added to the high costs of dealing with the rise in drugs and crime, homelessness and the AIDS epidemic...