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Bush's high court nominee withholds his abortion views, but confirmation seems assured. -- White House and congressional leaders slog their way toward a budget deal. -- Hard times on the Great Plains. -- A reformer wins in D.C., and Dinkins calls the cops...
Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dead. In the freezing fog, sputtering Rumanian-made Dacia sedans are lurching every which way, horns honking. On the sidewalk, pedestrians slog through ankle-deep mud and slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger...
...restaurant would be the world's largest McDonald's outlet, with 900 seats. But the Moscow Mac's development has been a long slog, in part because of logistic and bureaucratic hassles. McDonald's may prove to be a hard sell to Muscovites, most of whom have never heard of a hamburger or couldn't afford one. Even so, last week's graduates were bullish. Says Khamzat Khazbulatov, 33: "We will bring back all the skills that result in excellent profits and sales...
...similar expression flickers when Naipaul assesses his own career. "I really don't have a success story to tell," he begins. "My story is one of slog and grind and disappointment and overcoming." Growing up in Trinidad "among advertisements for things that were no longer made," Naipaul rebelled against the prevailing backwater mentality. His model was his father, a journalist who tried to bring new ideas to his insular community. Seepersad Naipaul died in 1953, a defeated man of 47. Yet, as his son has written, "he made the vocation of the writer seem the noblest in the world...
What can the attraction be? It is, after all, a three-day uphill trek to the foot of the final peak, and then a predawn slog of two practically vertical miles to the top. On the way, walkers are alternately roasted by the tropical sun and chilled by low alpine temperatures; they sleep in unheated, unlighted huts, wash in ice-cold water and, after five days, emerge from the mountain dirty, haggard and exhausted. "Maybe the only satisfaction comes from looking back on it afterward," suggests climber Matt Claman, 29, a lawyer from Juneau...