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When temperatures fall in Russia, food is harder to find in the cities and prices rise. The sting in the air makes shopping even more of a hardship. As citizens trudge from store to store in the dark, their frustration is, as it has always been, aimed at their leader in the Kremlin. But unlike the Czars and the General Secretaries before him, Yeltsin does not rely on terror to enforce the silence and passivity of the populace. Instead, he has to address its grievances and contend with its elected representatives...
...Wash The Sting Away...
Starting today, the red-eyed defending Eastern champs--who have seriously hurt their chances of winning an outright Ivy title--hope to wash the sting away at Blodgett Pool, where the Crimson hosts Syracuse and Villanova in a meet designed to test the team's progress to date...
...President-elect journeyed uptown to an all-black neighborhood that is combatting crime as well as recession. That pilgrimage perhaps took the sting off the two nights he spent at glittery parties in posher Georgetown. Clinton's trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday was what an aide to the Governor described as a "love shack." Latent intraparty disagreements over taxes, deficits, auto-fuel standards and a line-item veto were quietly shelved; starved for a leader after 12 years, the Democrats are all singing the same music. For now, anyway, happy days are here again. (See related story on page...
...think it's unfair, I just think it's unnecessary," said Matin J. Connealy, manager of the Harvard Provision Co. "[They should have] a stricter control on the spout rather than a sting operation...