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...polling showed that about 2% of voters would shy away from Yeltsin if that happened. On that point, we were ignored." Lebed won a startling 15% of the first-round vote, and in a dramatic move, Yeltsin almost immediately thereafter appointed him his national security adviser. According to an exit poll, 56% of those who voted for Lebed in the first round voted for Yeltsin in the runoff...
After being shepherded up the exit ramp of the FDR Parkway by mounted police, I settled with my friends on a blanket in the middle of the blocked-off highway...
...when the move did end, in a peal of applause, something truly amazing happened, for New York: no one got up and started to run for the exit. Just about everyone sat still for the credits, and even for the closing announcements, as though they didn't care about beating the rush. No doubt Frank Capra would have preferred it if everyone had joined in a chorus of "Auld Lang Syne"--but, for this temporary New Yorker, it was a not unimportant thing, a fleeting improvement in the city's ailing quality of life...
...responsible for those little lights at the center of the rear windows of our cars that tell tailgating drivers to hit the brakes. And while Hillary may tell us that it takes a village to raise a child, Elizabeth made sure that we know how to find the emergency exit in a smoke-filled airline cabin. If the two women ever did hold that debate, Elizabeth might try to argue that she's "a doer, not a talker...
Mindful of the importance of "facts on the ground," the incoming Prime Minister vowed to lift four-year-old Labor-government restrictions on new or expanded Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. When exit surveys finally began to indicate a Netanyahu victory on election night, Yaakov Katz, chairman of the settlers' offshore radio station, whooped, "Everything will change! In 10 years there will be half a million Jews in Judea and Samaria," the biblical name for the West Bank. Settlement expansion is the most incendiary issue among the Palestinians, who view the settlers as robbers...