Word: victor
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...MISERABLES Writer-director Claude Lelouch's film is less an adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic narrative than a passionate response to it--one overflowing heart heeding the call of another across the years. Resetting the tale mainly in the occupied France of World War II and reimagining many of its incidents, Lelouch remains true to his source's sweep, scale and romantic, entirely unfashionable belief in the conquering power of simple human goodness...
...THAT RUSSIANS will lack for choice when they go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new national parliament. Establishment figures like Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin are running, but so too is Dzhuna Davitashvili, an extrasensory healer formerly employed by aging Politburo members. Both the Communist Party, a remnant of the Soviet monolith, and the Beer Lover's Party have fielded candidates. All together 5,000 candidates are vying for the 450 seats of the State Duma, the lower house of the country's two-tier Federal Assembly. It would be no exaggeration to say Russia is experiencing...
...VICTOR CHERNOMYRDIN Holding the Roof...
...victor belong the foils, then the Harvard women's fencing team has some new equipment...
...incredibly, Algerians went to the polls--75% of them, if government figures can be believed. On Friday morning, ex-general and incumbent President Liamine Zeroual was declared victor, with 61% of the vote and a mandate to bring peace to the country in his five-year term, beginning this week. The news broke the spell of silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into...