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...rare moment of humor in a listless campaign in which both candidate and voters have acted as if a week in the Gulag would be preferable to enduring one more speech. To break his deadlock with the nay-saying parliament, Yeltsin has organized a national vote on April 25 that will ask Russians whether they trust their President, whether they approve of his economic reform policies and whether they favor holding early elections for both President and the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin is determined to win yes votes on all four points...
Apart from the occasional Undergraduate Council sponsored event or final club bash, much of Harvard's traditional party scene seems to be relegated to smoky moms in packed bars or listless gatherings around a keg of beer, DiCiccio says...
Fortunately for the Crimson faithful, the dunk shocked the listless Harvard squad back to life...
...make, no matter the question or his rivals' response; each understood that many Americans would be paying attention for the first time, and that oldies for some would be goodies for most. The President, who often uses English as if it were his second language, was coherent, but almost listless. Rather than firmly sketch his plans for a second term, Bush made a plea for four more years that was almost plaintive. In 1988 Barbara Bush said, "I can't explain it, but yes, the camera shrinks him and makes him look small...
...move three more missions to his "accomplished" column. In his acceptance speech, he played the stature card, reminding Americans that on his watch the Berlin Wall fell, communism crumbled and Kuwait was liberated. After wrangling for weeks with advisers over how to reconcile his respectable record abroad with his listless performance at home, Bush reduced his pitch to two sentences: "This election is about change. The question is, Who do you trust to make change work for you?" Translation: "I'm not perfect, but the other guy's worse...