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First, on Lebed's demand, Yeltsin fired his loyal but hugely unpopular Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev. Then on Thursday the President purged three more hard-liners, including the man closest to him, his drinking buddy and tennis partner Lieut. General Alexander Korzhakov, who served as chief of security. The firings amounted to an almost clean sweep of the so-called Kremlin war party, an inner circle of authoritarian, antireform power brokers. Their departure could lead to a quicker end to the war in Chechnya, which the fired officials had originally urged on Yeltsin, and a return to influence for some...
...little tougher to track, but they're immensely rewarding." Religion is by no means Van Biema's only interest. Since he came to TIME three years ago from our sister publication Life, he has written about everything from natural disasters to Forrest Gump. "I think it was the most unpopular essay TIME ever published," says Van Biema of his anti-Gump manifesto. "I'll have to write another soon...
Lamm's dalliance with the Reform Party began with his appearance two weeks ago at its California conclave, where the audience devoured his assault on "generational malpractice." Said he: "Without unpopular reforms...the future of the American experiment stands in grave jeopardy." His credentials make him a credible spokesman for Perot's issues. During his 12 years in Colorado's statehouse, Lamm was called Governor Gloom because of his warnings about the need to tame entitlement programs such as Medicare...
...year ago, most pundits and talking heads repeated different versions of the same analysis: Boris Yeltsin was finished. Critics of Yeltsin's administration cited ill health, rumors of alcoholism, an unpopular war in Chechnya, vast public dissatisfaction with the state of reforms and increasingly tough economic times. But in the past few months, Yeltsin transformed himself from an ailing recluse to a populist dynamo. He bulldogged his way through campaign stops and photo ops, dancing at a pop concert with fierce, arm-pumping concentration in one memorable moment. "With new advisors like former privatization minister Anatoly Chubais, and NTV head...
...Shachar says his experience is testimony to the virtues of two of Harvard's most notoriously unpopular programs: Expository Writing and the Core Curriculum. Professor Stanley Cavell's Moral Reasoning core, Moral Perfectionism, inspired him to study philosophy. This was already a nascent interest: During his first year at Harvard, Ben-Shachar founded the campus Objectivist Club, but by his sophomore year he no longer ran it. Now he doesn't considers himself an Objectivist, noting the irony that Ayn Rand's highly individualist philosophy spawns "blind commitment" from her ideological "followers...