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Edik Kovolev, 28, is an art student who lives in Krasnodar, a midsize agricultural town in southern Russia. Each summer he goes to Moscow to earn money to pay for his education by drawing caricatures of people who stroll past his tiny fold-up chair tucked next to the sidewalk in the capital's busy Arbat Street. "I'm not going to vote," he declares, voicing an attitude that seems to be shared by many of Russia's young people. "Yeltsin will win anyway, so I don't think my vote would make a big difference." Also, like some other...
...antithesis of a party hack. With his macrocephalic head and mesmeric blue eyes, he comes across as a winsome extraterrestrial. Even more exotic among politicians, he actually seems to be thinking while he talks, and given the opportunity, he'll talk about anything but politics. While taking a stroll along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, killing time before a fund raiser for Illinois senatorial candidate Dick Durbin, Kerrey provides a magical mystery tour of his mind: he mentions how much he relishes mathematical constants ("I have a love affair with figures that stay constant, like gravity. Don't legislate against gravity...
LAST TUESDAY AFTERNOON, RON BROWN found himself with some time to spare in Paris before flying on to the Balkans. So he went over to the U.S. embassy and engaged Ambassador Pamela Harriman in a stroll along the Seine. As they walked and chatted, the Commerce Secretary could barely contain his enthusiasm over a scheme he had just cooked up involving 200 Big Macs, which he had managed to persuade a McDonald's manager in Croatia to give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them...
...eligible for the slim privileges that go with age. A 50-year-old man who receives an invitation to join an organization that offers vitamin discounts for the mature may resent it as a harbinger of that dreaded day when he takes his wife's hand during an evening stroll through the park and overhears some college kid on a nearby bench saying, "Isn't that cute...
Male lead Ross Benjamin '96, on the other hand, unconvincingly played Raina's suitor, Captain Bluntschli. Fairly distant from his character, Benjamin seemed to be reading lines from a script, as if he lacked the time to incorporate emotion into his role. With a lackadaisical stroll and a tone lacking in energy, he failed to drive the show forward...