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Zhirinovsky heads the "Liberal Democrats," who fill 15 percent of the seats in the lower house of Russia's new parliament. What has Alaskans concerned is Zhirinovsky's vision for the future, which includes dividing Poland between Russia and Germany, sending Bulgarian president Zhelyu Zhelev to Siberia and, most important of all (at least to Alaskans), reclaiming Alaska for "Mother Russia...
Sachs: In countries that have undertaken real reforms, they are working. If you look at countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia or Latvia, inflation has been nearly eliminated and growth has been restored. Whether it is a left-of-center government, as in Poland, or right-of-center government, as in the Czech Republic, they are all following the same policy of privatization, open trade and integration with Europe. The policies work. There are lots of experiments going on. The successful countries uniformly are the ones undertaking strong reforms. The countries that are falling far behind or into chaos...
Within a week of the trip to Moscow, the President's Russia policy had collapsed. Russia's slide is not, mind you, a failure of Clinton's personal diplomacy. There are limits to personal diplomacy. (Something politicians often have difficulty recognizing: "Lord," said Senator William Borah after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, "if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.") Personal diplomacy cannot reverse the trajectory of a great power. Russia's retreat is an aftershock of the December elections in which the totalitarian parties campaigning against reform and for empire won about...
Despite his resignation, Sachs said he is still a firm believer in "shock therapy." He cited Poland and Estonia as countries where the strategy has been successfully applied with positive results. But he said that due to political strife in Russia, there has been little reform and "there certainly hasn't been shock therapy...
Most everyone in the Harvard Police Department thought last month's trial of two University security guards was an embarassment. The guards were acquitted of what many officers said were trumped-up charges that they stole two Poland Springs water coolers from the Law School...