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Yeltsin hardly needed a psychic to tell him that he was under attack last week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
...Africa transforms itself into a multiracial state. One of 10 remote domains created and recognized only by Pretoria's old leadership, Bophuthatswana -- nicknamed "Bop" -- symbolizes apartheid's failed ambition to confine South Africa's blacks in putatively independent tribal homelands. It is home to Sun City, the lavish gambling resort that has been loudly boycotted by many American performers. President Lucas Mangope, who has ruled as a dictator since the homeland was founded in 1977, suffered such a stinging rebuke from his own people last week that on Sunday the South African government announced it was taking control...
...ever having worked for the KGB . . . Monday: Left Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, after being forced to stay overnight in an airport lounge when officials denied him entry to the country. (In January he had been asked to leave Slovenia after reports that his entourage had damaged property at a resort while drinking.) . . . Friday: Refused to meet with former U.S. President Richard Nixon, saying the U.S. nearly "impeached Nixon and now Russia is impeaching...
Chernin's eloquent and passionate prose is divided into four main sections, beginning with a recount of her arrival and establishment at the kibbutz. In the beginning, the narrator, "I, looks back on Kim Chernin en route to Araht, in a resort town near the Sea of Galilee, in a tone replete of distaste. "If I could like that Chernin, that woman I was twenty years ago, if it were easy, there wouldn't be this gap that has grown between us. There would be an enduring I, a continuity. Something must have happened along the way, a wrenching more...
...that the LA media catches onto this drama right away, and a lot of the information we get is from accounts of the chase on news shows. This is admittedly kind of funny at times, but unbelievably heavy-handed. Look, it screams, how the media and entertainment industry will resort to anything to produce copy! I get the message loud and clear, but I wonder if Charlie Sheen realizes just how ironically that message comes across...