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...advisers have for several months been privately urging Yeltsin to stand down, Aksyuchits tells TIME: "They almost succeeded in July, but Nemtsov and Chubais were able to stop it." Yumashev and Dyachenko argued that Chernomyrdin was the only person who could protect the President and his family from being "torn to pieces" by their enemies after he left office, says Aksyuchits. He predicted that the two advisers would keep up their pressure on Yeltsin...
...West, Mahathir insists, fears a ascendant Asia, with its large Muslim populations and strong governments, and is gleefully exploiting the Asian crisis as an opportunity to tear down the region's governments and replace them with toadies. In Mahathir's play, the pound of flesh has already been torn away. Like its neighbors, Malaysia lies bleeding, but when Korea, Thailand and Indonesia eagerly gulped down $150 billion in IMF bailout loans, Mahathir wanted none of the West's medicine. Shylock, after all, was no healer...
When the uptight Ippolite Ippopolitovich Popolitipov, or "Popo" (Chuck O'Toole '97), and the fidgety Yegor Tremens Rodent, or "Rodent" (Matthew Johnson '99), enter just after Aleksii's speech, one's feelings become torn. It is obvious that the two men are going to destroy both Aleksii and Serge--and they do, both morally and literally--but their coldness and ludicrous idiosincracies just make them all the more hilarious to watch. Johnson displayed his great versatility as an actor in last spring's Catch 22, and he does so again in Slavs!. Rodent, a stuttering likeness of Nathan Lane, captivates...
...develop bulky muscles but rather to increase their strength and endurance, which are harder to spot. Look for a subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them to the bone...
Miraculously fluid and well-shaped, the narrative unspools like a wavering dream. Reality, for Ricci, is a blurred photograph torn at the edges (as is the title--you can finish the book without knowing whom "she" refers to, let alone where she has gone). Heavy with the pressure of the unspoken, yet vividly immediate, this tale of detonations proceeds like the fishing boats we see at the end, taking off into a "moon-crusted sea," with bonfires behind them on shore, a "strange moonlit flotilla like some whispered night-time setting out for the beyond...