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...still making zillions: from a sturdy domestic box office, from an increasing domination of worldwide exhibition and from somehow persuading consumers to pay for what they once saw for free (in the burgeoning market of old TV shows on DVD). With Valenti as their spokesman - and with his successor, Dan Glickman - they've been doing fine...
...finest moments, Yeltsin showed a side of Russia that the West could believe in, a Russia that shared the West's values and interests. The irony is that Yeltsin's more enduring legacy may be that he delivered a weak nation to a successor who is fashioning once again a Russia that is a threat to the West...
...announced Jones’ resignation Thursday morning in a brief e-mail to students and faculty. Stuart Schmill, formerly senior associate director of admissions, was named to fill the vacancy until a permanent successor is found. The shake-up comes at the tail end of the admissions season, with matriculation decisions due next week...
...decade of what he sincerely believed was his fight for democracy, Yeltsin surrendered his country and his subjects - whom he had so persistently urged to become citizens - to former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A few members of the democratic opposition still left now reproach Yeltsin for choosing a successor who dismantled the fragile freedoms Yeltsin had inaugurated. But the point was not his choice of successor as much as the method of succession, forgoing fair and transparent elections, simply announcing his resignation and appointment of Putin as his successor on New Year's Eve in 2000, followed by a token...
...monitor for the European Union. A local alliance of civil society observers called for the cancellation of Sunday's vote. "The election was a charade," they declared. "A democratic arrangement founded on such fraud can have no legitimacy." Even outgoing President Olesegun Obasanjo, who nominated Yar'Adua as his successor, admitted: "Our elections could not have been said to have been perfect...