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...Crimson shot a whopping 52.6 percent from the field in the second half, including three of nine from the three point line while every player scored. Brown only managed to hit nine shots in the final period and converted none of their nine attempts from downtown...
There are several answers, none of them reassuring. Most important, Yeltsin presides over a system that was built with one purpose: to give him as much power as possible and reduce to an absolute minimum the political latitude of both parliament and his own ministers. Second, Yeltsin is profoundly jealous of anyone who tries to steal his limelight, and during his illness he has divided caretaker duties between presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, two men whose approaches to politics and government are diametrically opposed. The result, as the President undoubtedly intended, is political stalemate...
...desire for a prominent place in history. They wanted structural reform of the country's outdated industrial sector, along with dramatic measures to encourage foreign investment. They wanted a new tax code to replace the current unwieldy and unenforceable law. And they wanted to restore law and order. None of this has happened, nor is likely to happen in the foreseeable future...
...past few weeks alone, in a sort of limp-up to the Inauguration, observers such as Jacob Weisberg, Garry Wills and Maureen Dowd have scowled at his scandals, his personal treacheries and alleged philandering. What Clinton does to Joe Klein and Bill Safire shouldn't happen to a dog. None of these first-class intelligences are normally subject to fits of rage or blue funks, but when it comes to the man from Hope, whoa Nellie...
Much of this was true, and none of it matters in the least today. One has to take Tiepolo on his own terms. He wanted, he said, to "please noble, rich people." So did every artist in Europe until the late 19th century. He was working in a tradition and adding to it. His borrowings from the past were inspired, not passive or academic. His great model was Veronese--indeed, his contemporaries called him "Veronese reborn"--and other artists influenced him too. He was acutely style-conscious, and as alert as a magpie. But the effect of his work...