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Yeltsin promised "no backtracking" and named Gaidar as his economic adviser. On Saturday he cut short a visit to China, claiming he had to "restore order" in Moscow and ensure that the "inner core" of Gaidar's team was not excluded from the new government. But the show of authority could not obscure Yeltsin's political weakness. And his nation remains impoverished. Although officials from the G-7 industrialized nations agreed to permit Russia to defer payments on $15 billion of the $16 billion it owes in foreign debts for this year and next, the country is still $86 billion...
...organizational whiz who glows with confidence and is able to get his way without making personal attacks. Known widely as "Mack," he has built an unusual degree of loyalty across political lines simply by being direct and honest. One of the few people in Clinton's inner circle with private business experience, McLarty ran his family's chain of Ford dealerships for 15 years and recalls the pain of making what he calls "better-bad choices," which included firing family members and close friends who didn't measure up. "I don't think you have to be autocratic or meanspirited...
...generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged, taking it out of the constraints of theory and system and making it an instrument of feeling -- of telling an inner life...
...Malcolm X's 30 teachers are black. The classrooms feature pictures of famous African-American artists, scientists and writers, and there is a clear, though unspoken, sense of pride that it is blacks helping blacks reclaim this troubled community. But there are many teachers who knew little of the inner city before arriving here. "It was a culture shock even for me," says second-grade teacher Avis Watts, who was raised in the Virginia countryside, and whose parents taught college. Now she appreciates just how critical the school is to the children. "This is their lifeline really," she says. "They...
Like so many inner-city principals, Pannell seems forever on the verge of being overwhelmed, having inherited a school in turmoil. Says Pannell: "The only thing you can do is pray daily: 'Give me the wisdom to make the right decision.' " He is nothing if not pragmatic, accepting the largesse of corporate donors and government alike (he receives both Head Start and Chapter I funds), and espousing a mix of George Bush's "thousand points of light" and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." To encourage the children, he has set up an elaborate system of rewards for excellence in every...