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...start last week when the Central Electoral Commission refused to register the Yabloko bloc of economist Grigori Yavlinksy, citing a technicality: the group had violated election laws by dropping six names from its list of more than 200 candidates without supporting documents. The surprise decision to exclude the only reformist group in the present parliament with a serious chance to do well in the election set off an immediate firestorm of protest. Yavlinksy claimed that officials "in the top echelons of power" were taking advantage of the President's illness to settle political scores. Chernomyrdin said the decision "damaged...
...Crimson's stances toward the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition, expressed in Patrick Chung's column ("Sloppy Slap Shot," Opinion, September 23) and a staff editorial on September 25, invariably start with a firm reminder of why PUCC's reformist project is necessary. Chung acknowledges that the Undergraduate Council, the only body able in theory to speak on behalf of all the members of the College, "is just another extra-curricular activity" and "suffers from a lack of legitimacy." He also allows that the council's illegitimacy stems in part from the fact that "[it] is a bastion of white males...
...that's the way it plays out, because the reformist zeal sweeping Congress today will probably dissipate before long. As the new members eager for change graduate into the permanent ruling Establishment, they won't want to leave either...
...swerved sharply from his original reformist course and is cutting himself off from his former allies among the democratic political parties. He is talking tough these days, and when he drops out of sight, he leaves things in the hands of a small group of loyal aides and a Security Council, dominated by the "power ministers," such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch...
Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), the Tory party whip who had schemed his way to the prime ministry in House of Cards, returned to battle a reformist King of England (Michael Kitchen) in a sequel that nearly matched the original in savage...