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...paranoia gradually caught up with him. After several severe attacks, he was hospitalized. When he began to suspect his doctors of poisoning him and took up drinking ink as an antidote, it was decided that he should return to Russia. The poor man eventually died there in a sanatorium...
Yeltsin gave up trying to govern years ago ?- instead, like some giddy czar in a Lewis Carroll nightmare, he simply reminds Russia of his authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal...
...emphasize the quiet shift of power from Yeltsin to Primakov, press coverage of the Prime Minister's farewell visit to Yeltsin before leaving for Vienna included a new twist. Ministers usually swing by the Kremlin to receive "instructions" before a state visit. Primakov dropped by Yeltsin's sanatorium to hear a few "suggestions...
Moscow's media corps scrambled for its medical dictionaries Tuesday, in search of the meaning of "asthenic." That was the term chosen by the Kremlin to describe Boris Yeltsin's condition, in explaining why he's canceled all travel plans and checked in to a sanatorium for two weeks. He's already taken 47 vacation days this year...
...career in philosophy awaiting him at Harvard, and moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working at Lloyds Bank, brought out Prufrock and Other Observations. Five years later, after a nervous breakdown and a stay in a Swiss sanatorium in Lausanne, he published The Waste Land. Modern poetry had struck its note...