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...with technological bells and whistles. Mormon sites offer links to vast genealogical databases, while YaaleVe' Yavo, an Orthodox Jewish site, forwards E-mailed prayers to Jerusalem, where they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented...
...official title, chief of the presidential administration, suggests a high-level aide, but that understates his clout. Chubais, 41, has pushed out one rival, the populist general Alexander Lebed, and--for the time being at least--has outmaneuvered another, the uncharismatic but formidable Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin. During the months of Yeltsin's illness, Chubais controlled access to the President so tightly that his enemies dubbed him "the Regent...
Like his Democratic opponent, Thune emerged a bruised victor from a tough primary; now he's trying to heal--and keep winning. A conservative who wants term limits, disciplined federal spending and more local power, Thune declined to respond to the TIME/CQ questionnaire because it "did not adequately represent the effect or the intent of the legislation...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "From all we can tell, the Republican vision of 'opportunity' is not unlike that satirized by Victor Hugo in the 19th century--the notion that all Parisians, whether rich or poor, were equal in having the right to decide whether they wished to live under the bridges along the Seine...
...VICTOR MORALES (D) Senate Challenger...