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...save it. Acting president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russian forces were in full control of the capital, and had managed to find an administrative building still standing amid the rubble on which to hoist the Russian flag. But with the bulk of the city's two to three thousand Chechen defenders having broken through Russian lines - at a considerable cost in casualties - and made it to the rebel strongholds in the mountains to the south, the war's focus has simply shifted elsewhere...
...companies haven't spent this kind of money since the baby boomers moved en masse into the market," says Wesley Brown, an auto analyst with Nextrend in Thousand Oaks, Calif. "They know it's much easier to bring new buyers to a brand while they're 16 than it is to start conquering them...
...honor to share the century with such a person. A thousand years from now, people will still look upon Einstein with wonder. J. RICHARD GOTT Princeton...
...Clinton Administration doesn't want the U.S. to become the world's policeman. But it wouldn't mind having world cops. Floating around the White House is a proposal by Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT that would have the U.N. set up a standby force of several thousand policemen, who would rush into war-torn areas to keep law and order. Cops are scarce in countries recovering from civil war, but military units deployed as peacekeepers balk at doing police work. So the U.N. has to start from scratch each time, enlisting nations to contribute policemen. "Getting enough of them...
...would come out," says Douglas Clegg, a New York City horror writer with nine published novels under his belt and two more in the hands of Dorchester Publishing. So Clegg got Dorchester to sponsor an e-mail serialization of his latest work, Naomi, a "haunted love story." Four thousand people signed up to receive free weekly chapters last summer. Clegg plans another e-mail serial in June. The money Dorchester kicked into the project went to designing a Doug Clegg website and some banner ads, so e-Naomi was not a moneymaker for the author. The real payoff, Clegg says...