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That is the equivalent of what Russia is going through, and it would spell political backlash -- if not worse -- in any language. When Bill Clinton was in Moscow two weeks ago, Boris Yeltsin assured him that free-market reforms would continue in spite of the December elections that boosted extreme nationalists and old communists into parliament as the dominant opposition. But Air Force One was hardly airborne before the Russian government started stepping back from its pledges...
...mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...
Local shelter organizers said there was an increase in demand for beds during the cold spell...
Going into Wednesday's game against Fairfield, the Harvard men's basketball team was definitely in a spell. It had lost six games in a row, and against the Stags the Crimson wanted a victory, or at least to play well...
...although he had some art training, he was basically self-taught. Freud's German origins have suggested to some critics that early works like Girl with Roses, 1947-48, a portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, were done under the spell of the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) portraiture of the 1920s -- painters like Otto Dix or Christian Schad. Actually the basis was much earlier: Albrecht Durer, whose fixedly staring, ultradetailed watercolors set Freud's first standards about the inspection of faces and bodies...