Word: victors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin were to die, the presidency would pass to Victor Chernomyrdin, Russia's Prime Minister, who more than anyone appears to be Yeltsin's chosen successor. Chernomyrdin would be required to call a presidential election within three months. Matters would be less clear if Yeltsin remained alive but incapacitated. In this case also, Chernomyrdin would become acting President, but the Russian constitution does not spell out clearly when a President may be judged too ill to perform his job. A power struggle among ambitious rivals would almost surely ensue, with the fragile constitution itself only one of the potential casualties...
...STANDARD OF JUSTICE THAT many blacks complain about will continue until lawyers stop exploiting their clients' color and until every criminal trial has the same financial backing on both sides--defense and prosecution--as did O.J. Simpson's. This trial has proved only that money can buy reasonable doubt. VICTOR M. SANCHEZ JR. El Paso, Texas aol: Ebola Zaer...
...Spectacular sweep, romantic grandeur, narrative richness, an improbably happy, morally instructive ending -- 'Les Miserables' has all the old-fashioned, totally unfashionable virtues," says TIME's Richard Schickel. Claude Lelouch's film, the seventh screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, relocates to the 20th century, mostly during World War II. "The film is full of absurd coincidences, broadly archetypal characters and situations (yes, a Nazi thumps out a piano concerto while a prisoner is being tortured nearby), and a sentimentality that verges at times on the woozy," says Schickel. "Yet, it's more sophisticated than the feelings it evokes...
...most important thing students can bring to the Forum is "a sense of curiosity and a willingness to ask a lot of questions," said Victor E. Williams, director of the recruiting effort for Cornerstone Research...
...Ellington's Deep South Suite and "Red Garter" from Ellington's Toot Suite that the band finally began to warm up. The highpoint of the first set came with the second Toot Suite selection, entitled "Red Shoes." Solos by Ryan Kisor and Sherman Irby, and impressive clarinet work by Victor Goines took the energy of the band up to another level. The first half ended with two New Orleans-inspired pieces. First was Marsalis's "Slow Drag," a programmatic piece about the Crescent City after hours. Wycliffe Gordon's trombone growls exemplified the grit of New Orleans bordellos and, despite...