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...resignation took force immediately. Within a few minutes of the address being aired, he had handed over the powers of office--including control of Russia's strategic nuclear forces--to 47-year-old Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Russian TV showed Yeltsin, already wearing his overcoat, holding the door of his ornate Kremlin study open for his successor. "Your office," he told Putin, with a stiff sweep of the arm. Soon afterward, the traffic in central Moscow was stopped, perhaps for the last time for Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, as his convoy sped to his country residence. And a couple of hours...
...statement on Friday he took obvious delight in scoffing at predictions ("lies," he called them) that he would never give up power voluntarily. His critics and rivals wanted to cast him as an autocrat. But the single idea I heard Boris Yeltsin utter more than any other was that his country must never go back to a dictatorship of any kind, especially to the communist system he so clearly detested. His enduring commitment to democracy was evident in his resignation statement, when he said that Russia's recent parliamentary elections, which brought forward a "new generation of politicians," had persuaded...
...candidates buy public opinion to try to get elected. Love is for sale, or at least a variation of it. Last year a man in Minnesota advertised for a bride, hired friends to interview candidates, and wound up with what the market would bear, as did she. The wedding took place in the Mall of America...
...with some trepidation, aware of the potential for the fog of technology and the insinuation of terrorism. Last weekend all of TIME's bureaus were on alert, and we posted several dozen photographers around the world to record the passing of 1999 into 2000. In Washington, correspondent Sally Donnelly took a New Year's Eve flight with the head of the FAA. Julie Grace of our Chicago bureau spent the evening with a family of Y2K worriers in Ohio. Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury watched Norad even as Norad watched the skies. Meanwhile, other correspondents followed sun worshippers in India...
...SYNC needs a new alias. Members of the wholesome pop quintet have been checking into hotels under the pseudonym Ron Jeremy, star of such X-rated fare as Wild Wild Chest and Black Cherry Co-Eds 3. This was fine until the real RON JEREMY took a room at the Westin in Edmonton, Alta., while the band was there. He was bombarded with phone calls from baby-sitters around the globe (apparently the alias isn't much of a secret) hoping to speak to their favorite 'N Sync-er. "I had some of the funniest conversations with these 12-year...