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...play." Mindful ofBoris Yeltsin's constitutional clout, the Russian parliament has dropped its push to begin impeachment proceedings against him. Instead, they called on Yeltsin to dismiss his "power ministers" (those responsible for the army and security forces) for their mishandling of the war in Chechnya. Yeltsin may get rid of the ministers as the price of winning a vote of confidence scheduled for July 1. If it works, he can head off a crisis in which he would either have todismiss his entire cabinet or disband parliament. "Yeltsin doesn't much care for these guys anyway," says McAllister...
...officers were staying put. No, of course not. Money has mainly a symbolic value in the entertainment business. It tells the top players how much they are wanted or not wanted. You want Sylvester Stallone for a picture, so you pay him $20 million. You want to get rid of Robert Morgado, the recently deposed head of Warner Music, so you contemplate a buyout package that's been estimated at upwards of $30 million...
...Ehrlich said that the entire search is anattempt by FAS to rid the College of Johnson andreplace him with an administrative flunky.B-9SERVICECrimson File PhotoCity Councillor FRANCIS H. DUEHAY...
...Just get rid of those girdles and see whathappens...
...thing" is Windows 95, the latest update of a 10-year-old product that Microsoft is scheduled to release on Aug. 24. Windows 95 is Microsoft's bid to rid itself once and for all of its twin albatrosses: the legacy of dos (a primordial system that is starting to annoy even its most loyal users) and the competition from the Macintosh operating system (which continues to make Windows seem clunky by comparison...