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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zyuganov rather than Primakov next year. The extreme nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, these days a faithful supporter of the government, is involved in one of his usual publicity-seeking fights, threatening to challenge the election results after losing a dispute with the central election commission. A new bloc trying to make its mark, the Union of Right Forces, led by Sergei Kiriyenko, enjoys Kremlin favor but may not make it into the Duma. Under Russian election laws, a party or movement has to obtain 5% of the vote nationwide before it can sit in the Duma as an official faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Piece Russia Back Together? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where the former Green Beret worked for nine years, describe him as a caring professional. But his former landlord in Auburn, Maine, Colby Dill, remembers Maher mostly for his aggressive behavior. "When you were in the apartment, you wanted to make sure the door was between you and him," says Dill. "He made threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Charade of Death | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Officials left the chair-rail bug in place for a few weeks to make sure they could prove it was under Russian intelligence control. Once the evidence was in hand, two FBI agents confronted Gusev on the sidewalk at 11:34 a.m. last Wednesday. He claimed diplomatic immunity and was declared persona non grata and given 10 days to leave the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still Spy vs. Spy | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...tree next week should feature a FireWire output, and any PC you want to use has to include a FireWire input. Most don't, of course, and you'll probably have to upgrade (see box). A major word of warning: FireWire does not work with Windows 95. You could make life a lot easier by purchasing an iMac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home, Hearth & Hollywood | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...life." In 1990, in her mid-20s, she began teaching third grade at Community Elementary School 90 in the Bronx, N.Y., where she learned how to succeed on the school's terms. She says the principal's underlings gave her a list of students along with the order "to make sure they passed" standardized reading exams. On the mornings of such exams, she was given a 2-in. by 3-in. cheat sheet. She would then have the students put their answers first on loose-leaf paper, so she could check them before they filled in the bubble sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Teachers Cheat | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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