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...seem, Zhirinovsky's elevation to a Duma seat may be the best thing for Yeltsin: better to have "Vladimir the Terrible" spouting off in the parliament than rabble rousing in the streets. Then again, Zhirinovsky is now well poised to use his seat in parliament as a launching pad for his presidential ambitions...
...paid in politics." Actually, it's not the soft-spoken Tennessee Democrat himself who has rankled the Administration. It's Cooper's health-care plan, a centrist proposal that has become the clear favorite of the Democratic Leadership Council, the very forum that served as the launching pad for Clinton's assault on the Oval Office. "Who am I? I'm a nobody," Cooper demurs. "But all of a sudden, they're afraid our bill is too popular...
...Story Musgrave has learned to handle pressure and danger. He knows what it's like to sit atop a 4.5 million- lb. space shuttle as its three main engines roar to life. He remembers well that when the eight steel bolts that attach the rocket boosters to the launching pad are blown away, there's no turning back. He has felt the crushing sensation as 6 million lbs. of thrust hurl him into orbit. And he knows how sublime and scary it is to float freely in space, tethered to the ship by only a slender lifeline. But none...
...most recent disaster is Summitville in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado. Over the plane's intercom, Flynn tells its shabby history. In all, some 280,000 ounces of gold were extracted, worth $98 million at today's price of $350 per oz. But the mine's leach pad, designed to catch sodium cyanide flushed through pulverized rock to dissolve gold, had been installed badly, in midwinter. It leaked, and the resulting solution of heavy metals in the acidic drainage poisoned 17 miles of the Alamosa River, which waters farms and ranches in the San Luis Valley. After...
Alas, the eleventh Undergraduate Council has reached its end--and with it, many of our favorite council-related institutions. Gone will be the days of "chairing" the council; from now on, council presidents will preside at meetings, and pad their resumes with more distinguished-sounding titles. Gone is the leadership of Michael P. Beys '94, who proved that to head a campus organization, one needs neither ethics, judgment, nor a good haircut. And gone from the council itself is Randall A. Fine '96, who generated more scandals in a single year than most four-year council vets can envision...