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...failed at the ballot box. But this is precisely the scenario Yeltsin wants to avoid. Since the new batch of deputies elected this week is likely to be an unwieldy mix of democrats, centrists, communists and nationalists, he could find himself confronted by a new parliament just as intent on whittling down his powers as the one he dissolved. Without popular support for a strong presidential constitution, the power struggle that has plagued Russia for so long could begin all over again...
...Many people were planning to contribute,"Peeples said. "But who would give money into asituation which was going to be changed to theextent that the intent of those contributionswould be altered...
...remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines are by definition produced not by megacorporations intent on market shares, but by individuals (or small groups of people) who basically want to tell you what they like and dislike, and why. There are probably several thousand such publications devoted to one or another flavor of what I've been calling "underground rock," and 10 or 12 that...
Another protester wore an eagle's head, complete with bright yellow beak, to symbolize the endangered bald eagle. Committee members dressed entirely in black carried signs explaining the costumes and the intent of the protest...
Then there is intent. In September, California's Supreme Court ruled that a health-food store owner could not reject a job applicant if her fatness was the result of a faulty metabolism or a psychological systemic problem, but could if it was the person's fault. Imagine the cottage industry of fat experts, the obesity counselors, next door to the sexual-harassment ! counselors, at the office, trying to decide whether someone is fat by predisposition or from eating too much Haagen-Dazs...