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Yeltsin did not link the firings to the detention of the campaign workers the night before, but others did. Reformers said the government had been split for months between a group that believed Yeltsin could win re-election and a faction led by Korzhakov that wanted to cancel the vote. Planting currency is an old KGB trick, and the hard-liners might have set up the campaign workers to embarrass the reformers; or the two men might really have been carrying foreign notes without proper documents, and the hard-liners simply seized on this infraction. In either case, they overplayed...
...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...
...which he is all too convincing. Matthew Broderick does a fine if not spectacular job as the lone island of sanity in Carey's ocean of dementia, but Carey's seduction to the dark side of the force does not prove terribly moving. His portrayal of a character split between "Fatal Attraction" and "The Three Stooges" does not pull convincingly one way or another. Jim Carey does not, nor will he likely ever, move us to tears, and unfortunately as the Cable Guy he barely moves us to laughter either...
...likely to lean towards a Communist Party he views as a lost cause. Whomever Lebed decides to support, Zarakhovich says he may not be able to deliver the vote. "Lebed's multi-faceted personality attracted various people from different social groups," says Zarakhovich. "His supporters are likely to split down the middle: either pro-Zyuganov or anti-Zyuganov." -->