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...economist or a diplomat who might be able to help Russians figure a way forward. Instead he called on a security man. After its humiliation over the impeachment, the Duma may decide to save face by rejecting Stepashin. But it may be hard for them to summon up the organization and courage to turn Stepashin down. Parliamentary leaders like communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov sounded winded after the impeachment debate wound down, exhausted by Yeltsin's apparent political immortality...
...Internet. Through e-mail, websites and live Web events, Earth Day participants will be globally linked as never before. "Earth Day is for the environment what Martin Luther King Day is for civil rights," Hayes says. "We know what to do. But can we summon the political will and courage to make it happen...
...term miscarriage, more than twice the outside rate. Only 20 percent of prison pregnancies end with live births. The New York Times recently described a woman forced to give birth shackled to her bed with her hands cuffed together and who was unable to reach the call button to summon a nurse when she delivered her baby...
Russell Feingold. That's a name that will be remembered by Democrats -- and Republicans -- for awhile. On Wednesday the Wisconsin Democrat became the only senator to cross party lines and vote alongside Republicans to proceed with the trial of President Clinton and summon witnesses. Following the vote, Feingold said he merely wanted to give House prosecutors more time to make their case, but he cautioned that "I have not reached a decision" on the question of conviction. Most Democrats avoided criticizing Feingold and indicated they viewed his action as a vote of conscience. "It probably is wise to take Feingold...
This is not genre writing, agreeable trash to be pigeonholed. If salt-soaked comparison is required, O'Brian's adventures suggest Joseph Conrad's sea tales more than those of C.S. Forester and his Horatio Hornblower. Conrad's prevailing mood is darker; though O'Brian can summon darkness and defeat, he is more arch and owlish. But as Forester did, O'Brian novelizes serially. The precarious lives of two memorable characters, friends and shipmates, thread through his books...