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...conflict that claimed at least 80,000 lives and muddied the reputation of the once-mighty Russian military. And with good reason: Russia failed to subdue the Chechens last time around, and there's no reason to believe they'd succeed now. But, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "there's tremendous pressure on the government to do something about the 'bandits' who are blamed for the apartment bombings...
...political class, with new prime minister Vladimir Putin making his vow to deal firmly with the rebels the centerpiece of his campaign for next year's presidential election. "The Kremlin is certainly using this crisis to paint the not-very-striking Putin to look like presidential material," says Quinn-Judge. The former KGB officer on Monday firmly rejected a call by Chechnya's President Aslan Maskhadov for political dialogue with Moscow, instead moving armor to the border. But despite their anger at the bombings, Russian voters may balk at another bruising infantry campaign in Chechnya. And, of course, the Chechens...
...hours, Rock hangs out with a core group of comics--Seinfeld, Joyner, SNL's Colin Quinn, a few others. "It's sort of the same reason cops and prostitutes like to hang out together," explains Seinfeld. "No one else understands them." It's a group that meets for nonprofessional reasons, but the camaraderie often sparks humorous ideas. Nevertheless, Rock declines to share jokes in progress even with his friends or his wife, doing his writing in private. The onetime high school misfit still has trouble fitting in. "I really can't trust anybody," Rock says. "Even the people who love...
...connection with last week?s apartment bombing in which 90 people were killed had rented a storage space in the crumpled building, and politicians of every stripe hastened to connect the attacks to the continuing war in Dagestan. "At the same time, though," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "they?re also stressing that they?re not grounds for declaring a state of emergency, which could be used to cancel elections...
...Russia on many occasions in the past, many Russian politicians fear that President Boris Yeltsin may use them as a pretext to claim emergency powers and hang on to power. "Faced with a corruption scandal that won?t simply go away, that scenario may be tempting for Yeltsin," says Quinn-Judge. "But there?s no guarantee that he could actually pull it off and survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces to make a state of emergency effective." Meanwhile, as Muscovites live in fear of having their homes blown...