Boris Yeltsin has promised a big splash when he returns to his desk at the Kremlin on Monday morning, but the entrenched problems he faces can't be fixed by presidential decree. A month after word was passed in the White House about suspicious donations to the first family's legal defense fund, half a dozen key people including President Clinton's top trouble-shooter and Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff conferred to determine what to do about it. Destinations included domestic tourist spots like Pebble Beach, Calif., and Hilton Head, S.C., as well as Asia and European capitals. Yet, a 50-state survey by the Associated Press indicates the changes will have little immediate affect on large numbers of people. The goal was to improve society's gene pool through forced sterilization, and Alberta authorities pursued the task with zeal and persistence.
Some restaurants encourage customers to take leftovers home in doggie bags.
Fourteen years later, authorities are taking another look. The husband and adoptive father of the victims was Richard Dow, a part-time police officer and former state trooper. The accident was investigated by ex-colleagues, two of whom later rose to top State Police jobs. Under the Cuisinart display, in the basement of the department store whose very name conjures up a movie-magic Christmas to so many, an impossibly cute toddler begins bawling. She wants Santa.