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...have been warnings of a showdown between reformists and reactionaries. Russians and Russia watchers alike talk about "the December scenario." The opening act will take place during the Congress of People's Deputies that begins this week. Yeltsin's opponents are expected to launch an all-out offensive to restrict his personal authority, reverse his main policies and remove his key ministers. In the scarier versions of the scenario, the maneuvers against the Russian government could be a prelude to a parliamentary upheaval or even a putsch...
Because of long lines for computer terminals at peak hours, Science Center officials will restrict computer game playing time to late nights and weekends with a new rule that takes effect Monday...
...could a university reasonably argue that excluding feminist studies--or allowing them to languish--makes sense? Good scholarship cannot mean cordoning off certain areas of study, even if budgetary realities sometimes restrict the breadth of an institution's curriculum...
Continuing his trend of backtracking on promises, the Bush administration reneged on a Bush campaign pledge in 1988 to ensure "no net loss" of wetlands. In order to satisfy developers in search of open land, Bush has proposed a change in definition for wetlands that would greatly restrict the amount of protected acreage. For example, scientists have determined that almost half of the Florida Everglades would no longer be "wetlands," and thus no longer protected, under Bush's new definition...
Rush's frequent attacks on feminists -- he has puckishly proposed, for example, that the issue of women in combat be resolved by forming 52 "PMS battalions" of women with the condition, led by "Sergeant Major Molly Yard" -- would seem to restrict his dating range in commie-lib Manhattan. Recently, though, he has been seeing Donna Dees, a p.r. director at CBS News. "She has her reputation to be concerned about," says Rush the male chivalrist, with no evident irony. "It's very embarrassing for a very liberal woman to go out with a conservative guy like me." Dees amiably allows...