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...condition than it did, not so long ago, when it seemed so strong and monolithic. Throughout the '70s and most of the '80s, the Soviet Union was what political scientists call a "rational actor," a single entity with a clearly identified central leadership and a predictable, if often disagreeable, pattern of behavior. Sharing the planet with Leonid Brezhnev was no fun, but the West knew that by dealing with him, it could manage its relations with a nation of 280 million...
...adds that because of the CCA councillors' voting records over the past two years and their attempts to reach out to the neighborhood vote, "A change in the traditional voting pattern may be evident this year, but it's not necessarily the case...
...cautioned that the study was not detailed enough to prove outright discrimination. But the overall pattern was consistent enough to prompt several Washington lawmakers to call for new antidiscrimination bills...
Even so, the current paralysis constitutes melancholy proof that leaders who can arouse a populace against dictatorship are not necessarily -- or even usually -- equally proficient at forming a new government. Yeltsin's sojourn in Sochi continues a distressing pattern predating the revolution: Yeltsin tends to follow two or three months of intense activity with a few weeks of idleness during which he virtually drops out of sight. Whether the cause is simple exhaustion, a recurring physical disorder (there are rumors of heart trouble) or some psychological hang-up is unclear...
Another American hostage, Jesse Turner, 44, was released in Beirut last week, and once again the process followed a familiar pattern. One of the pro-Iranian Lebanese groups provided new evidence concerning the fate of one of the five Israeli soldiers still unaccounted for in Lebanon. Jerusalem responded by ordering the release of 15 Lebanese Shi'ite prisoners. That gesture, in turn, led to the freeing of Turner, a former mathematics professor who had been held for four years and nine months...