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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surrounds the President, an inner circle known in the Russian press as "the Family." The other core Family members are Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and Voloshin's predecessor, Valentin Yumashev, a former journalist who ghostwrote Yeltsin's memoirs. Days before the sacking, the trio drew up a list of candidate-heirs. But in the end, there was only one. Yeltsin wanted Putin...
Egads! Yale, Harvard and Princeton have fallen out of first. Cal-Tech, a distant No. 9 last year, has vaulted into the top spot. On the vaunted U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities" list, Stanford has dropped two places to No. 6. And Johns Hopkins, relegated in 1998 to shameful second-10 status, is back on its feet at No. 7 in a tie with Duke and UPenn, both of whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle...
...decisions based on a number." Tech-heavy schools like Cal-Tech moved up based on the job prospects and salaries of their graduates (think Silicon Valley), but what if you want to become an English professor? Then it?s not No. 1 for you. Kasky didn?t begrudge the list its water-cooler value. "It?s fun to put this list out, and it sells a lot of magazines," she says. (TIME, for one, has its own version due on Monday.) "But you can?t take it too seriously. Cal-Tech is an excellent school. These schools are all excellent...
...proved so useful. They helped create a Blair world of almost Tolkienian density. "You could get into the spirit of the folklore we created without having to see the movie," Sanchez says, "or vice versa." The folklore also served as fodder for the book (No. 10 on the Amazon.com list), the comic book and, yes, the CD of songs found in the tape deck of Josh's car. Now fess up, that's stretching synergy. But everything has worked so far for the good-guy directors, who sounded most excited about a wager they'd just collected on. They...
...ended up with a partial and imperfect list, but in the end, these are the voices we love to hear," she wrote...