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...preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press as a shadowy figure with lucrative business interests and his own multimillion-dollar military compound, whose support was sought for everything from state policies to key ministerial appointments. Last July, Korzhakov was fired by Yeltsin amid feuding with Chubais, a key Yeltsin campaign official who now serves as chief of staff. Korzhakov contends that Chubais and Yeltsin's daughter and influential aide, Tatiana Dyachenko, have since siphoned power away...
Another proposed revision that Solomont sought and obtained has added more hoops to the informal process of resolving disputes between nursing-home owners and their regulators. Specifically, Vladeck recommended that state authorities meet face-to-face with nursing-care providers who dispute alleged offenses and that these discussions be joined by officials who have had no earlier involvement in the dispute and could thus provide a more "objective" point of view. Advocates like Edelman who oppose this change in the guidelines say it adds to the load of hard-pressed state regulators and thus undermines their ability to enforce...
...intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced black diamonds...
That could well be a violation of irs rules that prohibit tax-exempt organizations from transferring assets to private individuals. It also calls into question Gingrich's claim that he's no Jim Wright--the Democratic Speaker whose ouster he spearheaded--because he never sought to line his own pockets. After taxes, his royalties would have stuffed his pockets with something like $300,000--the amount of his fine. Maybe he should hand it over. If nothing else, it would prove that even when you can't count on the rule of law in Washington, there's always poetic justice...
This play-American attitude is precisely why he was hired. "When we sought a music director for the orchestra, we specifically wanted an American who loved American music, who would support American artists and American composers and musicians," says Lawrence J. Wilker, president of the Kennedy Center. "We think that it is very appropriate having the pre-eminent American conductor be our music director here at the nation's capital of the performing arts...