Word: lopped
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Yeltsin gave up trying to govern years ago ?- instead, like some giddy czar in a Lewis Carroll nightmare, he simply reminds Russia of his authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal...
...detailed pages together without some serious spying of its own. "The U.S. does as much spying as any other country, or more," reminds TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell.) So it will be up to the Clinton administration to either accept responsibility for the lapses on its watch or lop off enough internal heads to defuse the report's impact -- or a combination of both. Or it could go into major denial mode. "If you're looking at this presidency," said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart Monday, "I can't point to a case where we know something was stolen...
...vote to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000. Given their options, the Faculty made the right choice--to dismiss Douglas, rather than require him to withdraw, as five Faculty Council members had proposed. In the end, the Faculty followed the Administrative Board's recommendation by an extremely lop-sided vote...
...starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder. It might be better to forget the '80s--the posturing heavy-metal bands, Debbie Gibson, "Let's get physical--physical," the guy with the haircut in Flock of Seagulls. Perhaps the remembered sounds...
Moreover, even at the priciest colleges, the real cost, after all aid is factored in, is just under half the sticker price. That's for the theoretical average student, of course, and shouldn't be taken to mean that you can just lop half the cost off any college's price tag and expect to pay that amount. But it does mean that, as Deputy Secretary of Education Mike Smith says, "the resources are there." You need to find them, and you need to plan. "No matter how old your child is," says American Express's Satovsky, "saving for college...