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...economic package succeeds, the sharpest backlash may be political. Yeltsin will surely find it more difficult stitching together a coalition of politicians and financiers to back him in a run for a third term two years from now. In fact, if the emergency measures begin to work, the big winner may turn out to be Anatoli Chubais, the former First Deputy Prime Minister who has been handling Russia's international-debt negotiations. His boosters will cheer him as the man who pulled Russia back from the brink--while Yeltsin fiddled...
...then Starr was dragged in that direction by the winner-take-all strategy employed by the White House. Clinton used his office to thwart an investigation sanctioned by his own Attorney General, thereby violating some precedents of his own. Ronald Reagan waived all Executive privilege at the start of the Iran-contra investigation, which arguably dealt with the very matters of national security and diplomacy in which Executive privilege is most legitimate. He turned over his documents and diaries; he told everyone, including White House lawyers, to do likewise, because he said he wanted the facts to come out. Jimmy...
...Flynn has remained atop the few polls that have been made public, but his margin is small and the number of undecideds high. In any case, voters aren't likely to start paying attention to the race until just before the winner-take-all Sept. 15 primary. (Its victor has a virtual lock on the November general election.) By September, Gabrieli hopes, a summer's worth of provocative issue ads will have kicked in with voters. In a field of 10 candidates and as few as 100,000 people expected to cast ballots, 11,000 votes could conceivably be enough...
...WINNER Love, because her return to bad-girl land is long overdue...
...WINNER! About 500 people accepted our challenge two weeks ago to write a parody of a nursery rhyme that dealt with a subject in the news. In a close competition, Cheryl Georgeson of Lincoln, Neb., prevailed, and will collect a coveted Notebook T shirt. Her entry parodied "Mary Had a Little Lamb...