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...deep slump. Nearly a year after being installed by the U.S. invasion, the government of President Guillermo Endara is stumbling badly in the monumental chore of rebuilding a country devastated by corruption and the financial squeeze applied by the U.S. during the final two years of Noriega's reign. Though Bush Administration officials praise Endara for his good intentions, they fear that he and his government may not be up to the task of converting Panama into a stable democracy...
...complex relationship between Paley and Frank Stanton, the longtime president and "conscience" of CBS, who was crushed when Paley cast him aside rather than accept him as successor. It was a pattern that would be repeated with one heir apparent after another. By the end of his reign, Smith says bluntly, Paley, well into his 80s, "had become an albatross for the network...
...reaction is, 'Vote for Silber to free B.U.--the reign of terror will be over!" said B.U. sophomore Jason T. Massman. "There's also a faction that says, 'Let not sic the mad dog on the entire state...
VOTERS ON THE LEFT are not the only onesfeeling left out in today's gubernatorialelection. The ideological right, which has beenthe backbone of the state GOP during Dukakis'reign on Beacon Hill, has also been orphaned bythe campaign...
...Ottomans -- whose name came from the founding chieftain, Osman -- governed many of the same territories the Kremlin sought to dominate when Joseph Stalin expanded the bounds of Soviet power after World War II. At the zenith of the empire, in the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century, the Turks controlled most of present-day Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia. Parts of the U.S.S.R. were also Ottoman possessions: the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, as well as the Caucasus, which include the strife-torn Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan...