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...that fit today, "is a city founded on tears and corpses." It was, many felt, a fitting legacy of Russia's greatest reformer, who dragged his empire into the modern age by a mixture of will-power and terror--an all-powerful ruler who toward the end of his reign set aside each Monday for work in the dungeons of his secret police...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of four years--at least--of the reign of George the Second, which promises to be a nervous one for those who care about the environment. George II has anointed Christine Todd Whitman, governor of New Jersey, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As one of my friends recently said, "Isn't the fact that she's Governor of New Jersey irony enough?" Moreover, his nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, is a staunch advocate of opening up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. With a slowing economy...
...under fire for providing a room and money for an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. Ashcroft, the just-defeated Missouri Republican senator, is under attack from liberal groups for what they claim is a hostile record on civil rights. Daschle has promised no Democratic shenanigans during his 17-day reign, but Republicans are bracing for partisan attacks during the opening Chavez and Ashcroft hearings next week. "Bipartisanship is over," grumbles one senior Senate GOP aide...
...tone for the year was set. Remember when crazy Communist Gennadi Zyuganov was way up in the polls in Russia? Everyone was worried about that. So Boris Yeltsin starts the year by stepping down and handing power to Vladimir Putin. In Yugoslavia, Milosevic's bloody reign ends with a bloodless election. In Austria, that scary Jorg Haider gives up leadership of the ironically named Freedom Party. We didn't even drop any bombs on Iraq this year...
Tito Puente 77 The mambo king won five Grammys in a 50-year reign...