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...laughable level of importance as Gramm-Rudman. If there were a truth-in-naming law for legislation, the BBA should in fact be named the Yearly-Perfunctory-Ritual agreement. As Congress fails to meet the budget targets mandated by the amendment, taxpayers will be treated to yet another annual showdown, like those that often accompany the passage of the budget. A two-fifths minority (not difficult to collect) will attempt to force concessions by threatening to force concessions by threatening to block the now-necessary bypass vote. At worst, the stalemate will subject the federal government to short annual shutdowns...
Regardless of the results, the Harding-Kerrigan showdown will make for a great program. This operatic confrontation between good and evil is the stuff that fairy tales are made...
Farrell's 17th goal of the year, a top-shelf backhand move created by senior Chris Baird, gives the third-ranked Crimson (12-3-2 overall, 10-2-2 ECAC) some much-needed momentum going into Monday nights' Beanpot showdown with number-two Boston University (5-2 winners over UMass-Lowell last night...
...President Boris Yeltsin, who called the elections last September before crushing a hard-line revolt in a bloody showdown with the former parliament, he is reaping precisely what he sowed. Having chosen to stand above the electoral frenzy and endorse no party, Yeltsin threw his energies into only one contest -- the referendum on a new draft constitution. Yeltsin's popular clout brought in a 58% vote of support for the constitution, which grants him sweeping powers, among them the right to disband the parliament. But the legislative races failed to produce a new guard of professionals who would put constitutional...
After the October showdown, the Kremlin tinkered with the draft to tighten central control over Russia's 89 regions and autonomous republics. Federal laws are given precedence over local legislative acts, and natural resources are subject to joint federal and local control. Anticipating trouble in the hinterlands, which have exploited tensions in Moscow to go their own way, last week Kremlin advisers bluntly told local leaders in the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tuva and Kalmykia to refrain from "irresponsible remarks," hinting that the Kremlin might take measures to bring them into line...