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Whether the tape is authentic or not, the controversy surrounding Chubais goes deeper than his campaign tactics. In many ways he embodies Russia's ambivalence about its own political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
...government may have a harder time building its case and assessing the damage done. Unlike Ames, Nicholson is pleading not guilty. For starters, attorney Shapiro wants to subpoena the tape of the lie-detector tests, which he says can be used to refute some of the CIA's claims. The affidavit against Nicholson already contains at least one apparently inflated charge. It accuses him of selling to the Russians the name of the CIA station chief in Moscow. But as a symbol of warming ties, the U.S. and Russia actually inform one another these days of the identities of their...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...
CHARGED. RICHARD LUNDWALL, 55, former Texaco executive who tape-recorded the racial slurs of executives; with obstruction of justice; in White Plains, New York. He is accused of destroying documents related to a discrimination lawsuit against the company, now settled...
...Doves Cry, Emancipation is plagued with a lot of filler. In the end there are just too many middling songs. Still, listeners can indulge in a little emancipation of their own and make one great album out of this three-CD set. Directions: 1)Buy Emancipation and a blank tape; 2)Record these songs off the three CDs: Jam of the Year; Somebody's Somebody; In This Bed I Scream; One Kiss at a Time; Soul Sanctuary; Emale; Let's Have a Baby; Friend, Lover, Mother/Wife; My Computer; and the title track. A little extra work? Sure. But well worth...