Word: vladimir
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When it comes to backbiting and ridicule, the pair easily keep pace with their literary friends. McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...
Among soldiers, ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky jumped from fourth to second place in popularity polls last year. He received strong support from the army in parliamentary elections 13 months ago: according to confidential Defense Ministry data, more than 60% voted for him. The only way for Yeltsin to win back the sympathy of servicemen would be to buy them off with a hefty pay raise, but the government simply does not have that kind of money. Soldiers will vote in the next presidential election for a leader who will protest more vigorously the feeble overall reforms of the present government...
...scapegoats. He may have begun the search last week in the Defense Ministry, which is led by his old comrade General Pavel Grachev. Yeltsin met with Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and parliamentary leaders who had just been added to the top-level Russian Security Council. Afterward, upper-house leader Vladimir Shumeiko reported that they had decided to yank control of the armed forces general staff out of the Defense Ministry and place it directly under the President. This would make Yeltsin commander in chief of the armed forces and leave to the ministry basic but poorly handled tasks such as training...
...sentiments rang through Moscow. Dread of a prolonged guerrilla war that might not be confined to Chechnya -- the rebels have threatened terrorist attacks on Russian nuclear-power stations -- united communists, leaders of the once pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party and many other politicians in condemnation of the invasion. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalists were the only major faction to voice even tepid support...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, meanwhile, is still dodging political volleys from domestic opponents of the intervention. One notable exception: ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who today said: "If you have gangrene, you have to amputate the limb."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...