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Although the Canadians were well ahead of Doyle, he battled for third place with a good friend of his from St. Petersburg, Fla., Brad Funk from Old Dominion. It came down to the last race between the two Americans, which Doyle won by two points...
...Reported by Dee Gill/St. Petersburg, Maureen Harrington/Denver, Anne Moffett/Washington, Adrianne Navon/New York, Mark Shuman/Chicago and Tom Witkowski/Boston
...long and winding course of the regular-season regatta schedule led both the co-ed and women's sailing teams from the chilly waters of New England to sunny St. Petersburg...
...small coterie of aides terrified of losing their positions, surrounding and protecting a feeble old man whose power is steadily draining." Despite the frenzy of morbid clairvoyance sweeping the political elite, ordinary Russians remain depressed and indifferent. And that?s hardly surprising. A fourth bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg apartment building Thursday night, killing two people and wounding three others. But that attack wasn?t linked to the others, authorities said. That one was probably gang-related, they opined ?- simply business as usual in Boris Yeltsin?s Russia...
...recalls low points like the 1991 coup attempt and last year's economic collapse. But this August, Yeltsin's final one in the Kremlin, has been particularly unkind. The Swiss are still probing, while Islamic separatists drag Russia yet again into the Caucasus quagmire and regional chieftains from St. Petersburg to Tatarstan hunger for a bigger slice of the federal powers. Yeltsin's final year was supposed to be dedicated to dignified business: handing over the Kremlin to an heir sworn to reforming Russia. He may yet succeed in that improbable mission. But last week even allies were starting...