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...advisers that include his daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and his chief of staff Valentin Yumashev--dubbed "the Family" by Muscovites--may intend to keep him there as long as he is breathing. True, the Russian constitution says he cannot serve more than two terms, but Yeltsin expects the courts to rule next fall that his first term didn't count because he was elected under the old Soviet system...
From the very start of Boris Yeltsin's rule, his doorkeepers have had an outsize importance in running Russia. Despite Yeltsin's early populism, he has always mistrusted others and tended toward reclusiveness. These weaknesses have increased with his growing ill health. And last week's purge of his government has redoubled the importance of the two people closest to the President: chief of staff Valentin Yumashev and Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko...
...contrary to popular complaint, the shuttles are quite punctual; the griping you might hear is over the exception, not the rule. Walking or biking provides short periods of unstrenuous exercise, and the distance to the Square is really not much more than it is for Dunster or Mather residents...
...Never mind that Wright still has to rule on the motion for summary judgment -- remember that? -- brought by presidential lawyer Bob Bennett some weeks ago. Now there is the whole question of Juanita Broaddrick, a 51-year-old Arkansas nurse who denies under oath the Jones team's claim that Clinton raped her or ever made improper advances. Revealing her name, as Jones' lawyers did on Saturday, is "part of a continuing effort to taint the jury pool," according to Bennett. Wright's problem: In a hypersensitive case like this, any ruling she makes looks political. Her most likely solution...
...gives you a $500,000 exclusion if you are married ($250,000 if single) every time you sell a primary house--so long as you have lived in it for two of the past five years. Again, '97 is a transition year with important cutoff dates. The old rule applies to sales before May 7, the new rule after Aug. 5. If you sold, or went to contract or even bought a new house without having sold the old one in between those dates, you get your choice...