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...buying votes is common the world over, so is the attempt of one politician to steal his rival's thunder. Yeltsin began his campaign by promising he would not "deviate from [his reforms] a single centimeter. A halt or any attempt to reverse them," he said ominously, "would deal a crushing blow to the country from which it might never recover." But the officials most closely associated with his reforms have been fired, and more than once Yeltsin has said he is still "for reforms, but not at any price; I am for correcting the course...
...respect as a great power and constant reminders that Yeltsin's reforms have worked only for a few, the class called New Russians who own Mercedes and patronize expensive restaurants and nightclubs. "Russians have only three rights today," Zyuganov routinely intones in a surefire applause line: "The right to steal, the right to drink and the right not to be responsible...
...profited more from the killing frenzy than Arkan. Since the paramilitaries from Serbia were paid mainly in what they could steal, theft provoked many atrocities. Arkan reportedly had a price list for "liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment...
STRIPTEASE (June 28). It's not Showgirls, the trailer is at pains to tell you; it's Get Shorty: a slapsticky gangster comedy, but with plucky, bosomy single mom Demi Moore. And without Travolta. Burt Reynolds may steal scenes as a randy Congressman, but that's not why Columbia paid Moore $12.5 million for the film. Why do we get that sinking feeling...
...have purchased a few items on the Net. The sites were never advertised as being "safe" for transactions; however, in my opinion, it would be easier for someone to obtain a receipt or carbon copy of a "conventional" credit-card transaction or for a dishonest employee to steal your credit-card number than to go to the trouble of invading your "privacy" on the Net. And only a small percentage of people on the Net have the knowledge of how to tap someone's credit-card account illegally. EDWARD L. WENTZ III Oak Ridge, North Carolina...