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...building where Russia's central election commission would be announcing the results as they came in. "The hell with security," Dresner said. "I want to see this." And there they sat near the back of the auditorium, six guys in suits with computer projections in their hands and a lap-top computer. The place was overrun with reporters, but Yeltsin's secret American advisers were never recognized...
...races--the 400 free, the 800 free and the 400 individual medley (backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke and free) and won three golds. No one who knew swimming doubted that if her best race, the 1,500 free, had been offered, she would have won that as well, churning the final lap, as she customarily did, utterly alone...
...shunning critics in the big cities for the reassuring applause of the "red and passionate" in the remote Far East. There he wins heady applause from his natural constituency of pensioners and those left out of the new, rambunctious Russian society, who share his visions of impending apocalypse and lap up communism's promise to restore a mythic past of civil order and financial security...
This power didn't fall accidentally into the former M.I.T. professor's lap; he has lobbied hard for it. While he mouthed technocratic demurrals before the Senate committee, promising not to be too "intrusive" and humbly noting that "my Cabinet colleagues, Secretaries of Defense...of State, the Attorney General, have concerns about how future directors of Central Intelligence would, over the long term, play a role in this concurrence," it was clearly time for the winner to take...
...November long ago, when everyone felt stunned and saddened, she redeemed a tragedy, gave it a kind of meaning, by the sheer force of her presence and the size of her will. And she did it at age 34, after her husband's head had been exploded on her lap...