Word: yearn
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Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko will have proved insightful should Russians vote for Communists in the election. He wrote, "Those who are conceived in a cage yearn for a cage." STEVE HARHAJ New Brighton, Minnesota...
Nostalgia comes quickly in the '90s. We watch VH1's The Big '80s and laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season...
Gennadi Zyuganov's great achievement has been broadening his Communist base to include many who oppose Yeltsin's reforms, including "national patriots" who yearn for the empire's restoration, hard-line Bolsheviks who idolize Stalin, red capitalists who own casinos in Moscow, and "social-democratic" intellectuals. "Creating that coalition was our first priority, and it is why we never refer to Zyuganov as the Communist candidate," says Valentin Kuptsov, Zyuganov's campaign manager and Communist Party deputy. But "Zyuganov is not merely a tactical nationalist," says James Billington, a Russia scholar and currently the U.S. Librarian of Congress...
...GOVERNORS' CHOICE. If it's obvious Dole cannot beat Clinton, Republicans will yearn to nominate someone else. The rules are flexible: theoretically a majority of the delegates could vote for anyone they wanted on the first ballot. But the G.O.P.'s leading lights, the Governors, must take control. They could ask their delegations to vote for them as favorite sons and take those blocs into the back room to decide. In that scenario, the most likely victor is Michigan Governor John Engler, a darling of the devolutionists...
...these finds are useful and interesting. But what scholars truly yearn for - what might even be called the Holy Grail of biblical archaeology - is a royal archive from before the time of King David or King Solomon. No such archive has ever been located inside Israel, although surrounding countries have yielded many from the same era. Sighs Amnon Ben-Tor, a Hebrew University archaeologist: "It's like striking oil. Everywhere but here...