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...rejected a key package of economic reforms. The proposed reforms would have been an effort to meet the preconditions for a $4.5 billion IMF loan required to roll over Russia's debts to the international institution. "This was entirely expected," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s a lame-duck Duma voting down conditions agreed to in April by a government that no longer exists as a challenge to a lame-duck president. The curious thing is that the new government is trying to institute price controls and other measures that would traditionally send the IMF racing...
...strength of the allied air performance will also reignite debate over the heft and utility of U.S. Army forces. The lame deployment of the Army's 24 Apache helicopters--slowed by the need to ship humanitarian supplies into the region--created a perception that the Army couldn't get those choppers to war promptly and that the Pentagon was chicken to use them once they got there. Moreover, despite decades of chatter about fast, light forces, the U.S. Army still can't move a major fighting force quickly into place. That's a problem that Shelton, among others, wants fixed...
...lame-duck House Republican leadership of the last Congress to have pushed through the articles of impeachment--to have turned a crime so low that any ordinary American would never be prosecuted for it into a "high crime" on par with treason--is an abuse of their constitutional power that voters should not soon forget...
...President Clinton is supposed to be a lame duck, he doesn't seem to be showing any signs of lameness in matters big (as in Kosovo) or small (as in the appointment of James Hormel). On Friday Clinton installed the openly gay Hormel as the new U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg without the benefit of a Senate confirmation. Hormel, a respected philanthropist and former assistant dean at the University of Chicago Law School, has had his nomination bottled up since 1997 by Senate conservatives who vehemently oppose his gay-rights activism...
...about how the fig doesn't really justify the newton was helpful. I'm not against the idea of employing such courtiers, but when I get rich, I'm thinking more like erotic dancer, personal chef and even a poet, just so I can make fun of how lame poetry is and force him to wear a hat with bells and a codpiece...