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...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...
This belief in restraint has roots in my faith. A few weeks ago, I heard two very important stories during the service. In the first, Jonah, a reluctant prophet recently released from a whale's belly preaches death and destruction to the city of Ninevah unless they repent. The city repents, is forgiven and is not destroyed. Jonah is furious at being made to look like a liar. God reminds the prophet that in anger, he has forgotten that life is not his to give and take--and there are a great many lives in Ninevah...
DIED. VANGELIA GUSHTEROVA, 84, who was known as "Vanga," a prophet venerated by politicians and peasants; in Rupite, Bulgaria. By her account, Vanga was hurled more than a mile by a storm at age 12--which left her blind but may have opened up worlds hidden and future. She dreamed in 1941 of an "ancient horseman" who foretold the Nazi march into the Balkans...
...longer countenance. Instead of speaking from the heart, Kemp has spent the past few years speaking for pay, for as much as $35,000 a pop, to groups around the country. He wasn't expanding the nation's economic pie but his own. Even his role as the prophet of the panacea of tax cuts seemed to have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman...
After leaving office, Lamm abandoned politics to teach and write, returning to the stage for a brief and ignominious Senate race in 1992, in which he lost in the primary to Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Since then he has been a prophet with marginal honor in his own land, lecturing earnestly about the shame he feels at being part of the first generation that will not pay its own way. "We've got to stop bullshitting the public," he told TIME. "The economy of the '90s can't support the dreams...