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...with the debate," explains Craig Fuller, former campaign manager for Pete Wilson. "Forbes is helping Dole a lot by establishing a glass ceiling: Forbes and everybody else can see Dole, but they can't break through to touch him." The next morning the Des Moines Register proclaimed Dole the winner...
BORIS YELTSIN OBLITERATED A VILLAGE last week and called it a victory. A leading Moscow newspaper described the Russian army's running battle with Chechen rebels as "10 days of pain, impotence and shame." But Yeltsin, with a flourish of newspeak reminiscent of Soviet days, simply declared himself a winner. His troops, he claimed at a news conference in the Kremlin, killed 153 Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will...
...volume: how the seductive boy became the self-destructive man; why Hollywood blackballed a director who loved film so recklessly and, in his first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young Welles did more than anticipate, somehow, his disappointment...
...inauguration of Willie Brown as the city's new mayor. Formerly the all-powerful speaker of the California assembly, Brown had agonized over which of three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...
Speaking of Harvard, Crimson freshman forward Craig Adams was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week for the second time this year. Adams scored the game-winner in a 2-0 victory over Union on Friday and tallied one goal and two assists as Harvard toppled RPI, 6-4, the next night...