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Kremlin sources do claim, however, that Lebed has in recent weeks tried to extend his control over the country's security and military structures. And they were clearly unnerved last week when Lebed denounced the Defense Ministry's intention to reduce the size of the airborne forces, including some of...
The West--produced and directed by a Burns protege, Stephen Ives, but overseen by Burns as executive producer--is both more restrained and more resonant: a sweeping, thoughtful, often moving look at America's conquest of the West, from the early European explorers to the dawn of the 20th century...
Schmidt, on the other hand, knows his position: a 60-year-old retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope...
Morris' outstanding achievement has been to help his client re-create his image through "triangulation"--standing between and even above the two parties by embracing issues that lie "outside the box" of traditional two-party politics. Many of them dovetail with the family-values agenda that conservative Republicans have long...
Until last week Kemp seemed to be loitering at the margins of his own party. A few months ago, he remarked to reporters that he was in his "wilderness years," implicitly likening himself to Winston Churchill in self-imposed exile from a conservative party he could no longer countenance. Instead...