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...this moment in time?'" says Michael. The power of the expectations was frightening in itself. "One person is supposed to heal 200 years of racial divide," says Powell's son. "You're supposed to moderate the Republican Party. You're supposed to create a foreign policy in the vacuum left by the cold war, solve Bosnia and lead us to a new era of prosperity and growth--all because you were a successful general and won a war." It is a charming but dangerous habit of voters to romanticize those they admire, even to the point of destroying them. Says...
...stop representing affirmative action as some quota filling policy created in a social vacuum and recognize the more fundamental statement it makes, that discrimination won't be tolerated in passive or active forms, and that only a conscientious and rigorous effort will be successful in curtailing such bias...
Without clear constitutional guidelines about how to handle the power vacuum, there are certain to be palace intrigues ahead, as Kremlin bureaucrats, eager to strengthen the President's failing grip on power, face a challenge from members of Chernomyrdin's team, moving to assert their authority in anticipation of the day when their boss will be in charge. So, after a season of decline, the fine art of Kremlin watching may be poised for a comeback...
...audience was reflective and somber and sad. There were lots of tears," said Director of Hillel Bernard Steinberg, who delivered the invocation at the service. "This [service] was to acknowledge the loss of a great man and to express what we feel is a vacuum in a storm...
...International Studies says, "On the one hand, Yeltsin will be remembered as the destroyer of communism, an inspirational leader. On the other, as a leader who failed to create the necessary institutions in his new Russian state." Still, Yeltsin's death or his political impotence would create a vacuum that would pose a further threat to Russian democracy...