Word: paule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's September 1 visit. Russia's leader returned to his month-long vacation Tuesday, while his country reeled under the shock of Monday's ruble devaluation. "Should the latest package fail to stem the crisis, Russia's political establishment will be totally discredited," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "They have too often claimed to have found a way out of their economic woes, only to be proved wrong each time." Indeed, Yeltsin had insisted last Friday that all was well with the economy...
...With reporting by Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Maureen Harrington/Denver, Marc Hequet/St. Paul and Adrianne Navon and Megan Rutherford/New York
With Congolese rebels reportedly only days away from seizing power from President Laurent Kabila, the man they installed in office 15 months ago, the question wasn't "Who will be the new President of the Congo?" but rather, "What does the Vice President of Rwanda want?" That man--Paul Kagame, who is also the Rwandan Minister of Defense--is considered to be the mastermind behind both President Mobutu Sese Seko's removal from power in 1997 and what looks to be Kabila's political demise. What Kagame seems to want is a loose federation of autonomous regions based on ethnicity...
...Paul S. Gutman '00 lives in Currier House. He spent the summer working in Washington...
...ignorant of Russian history--with a flurry of fake snow and a lively political debate going on between two babushkas. These sprightly women, however, quickly turn into the mindlessly smiling grandmothers they are supposed to be as soon as Vassily Vorovilich Smokov (Jim Augustine '01) and Serge Esmereldovich Upgobkin (Paul Siemens '98) enter the scene. These minor female characters' highly-charged dialogue is hysterical by itself, but the combination of ironic political statements and the bizarreness of the situation is pure comic genius. Translation: even if you don't know a Bolshevik from a Menshevik, you'll still laugh...