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...Newsweek and Time conspire to portray her as evil just because she's a strong, independent woman who cares about people," he said...
...acting President. But other equally ambitious politicians--Chubais, who was named presidential chief of staff after the elections, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin--had no intention of handing over power. Lebed found himself increasingly hemmed in. His departure now gives him the chance he has been longing for: to portray himself as the rejected prophet, the man too honest for the Yeltsin administration...
While Radcliffe has tried to portray its large deficits as part of a sound financial strategy, they are unquestionably a cause for concern. The debt accumulated over the last three years amounts to nearly 38 percent of its 1995 operating budget, and more than 43 percent of its 1995 income. Compare that to Harvard, whose accumulated debt over the same period is less than three percent of its 1995 income. And even Harvard's small deficits are not preferable, according to Vice President of Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper. "Academic institutions want to be at break-even or better...
References to protesting civilians as "rock-throwing delinquents" and to the Palestinian civilian police as "vigilante commandos" portray the author's desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those...
...that it has, Zyuganov and Yeltsin are equally threatened politically by Lebed. The former paratrooper's pragmatic platform of crime fighting, plain speaking and his undiluted conviction that Russia has a place as a great power make him popular with the electorate. Now that Lebed is out, he can portray himself as the last honest man in the Yeltsin administration, a result which is probably a calculated risk on the Kremlin's part. After a series of confrontations with former ally Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, and Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov which sent charges of contract murder, treason, corruption spying...