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...fear his unpredictability, Zhirinovsky has gone out of his way to show that he is "just another politician and not a crazy nut," says Mitrofanov. How exactly? "By asking for the petty favors all politicians want." In Zhirinovsky's case, this meant meeting with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to request some specific goodies. According to Mitrofanov, Zhirinovsky asked for--and got--"a new car with a flashing blue light [to zip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams], a new dacha in the countryside, some special health cards for his family and one or two loans for some close friends...
...just 12 minutes. "Oh, Jesus," muttered a befuddled Simpson. Next stop was the Oxford Union, the world's most famous student debating society. "We have a tradition of asking hard questions," says Paul Kenward, president of the Union. "No holds barred." American journalists were barred, however--at Simpson's request...
...besides--adds the politician behind his hand--civic marriage has already been watered down to meet every conceivable request. You don't have to stay together five minutes longer than you want to these days, and certainly nobody is asking you to have children. To be turned down by such a club must be quite galling...
Marsden said the University will soon make changes to the health care options it offers in response to the mergers of several major health plans. But he said the committee, at the request of several faculty members, will attempt to preserve and expand options in the plan that offer physician choice...
...departure, good manners prevailed, and the pop diva submitted to an interview with the Budapest newspaper Blikk. The questions were posed in Hungarian, then translated into English for Madonna, whose replies were then translated back into Hungarian for the paper's exclusive. Shortly thereafter, at the request of USA Today, Madonna's comments were then retranslated from Hungarian back into English for the benefit of that paper's readers. To say that something was lost in the process is to be wildly ungrateful for all that was gained. "I am a woman and not a test-mouse!" reads a typical...