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On Friday, reports the Times , Russia's legislature will hold its third and decisive vote on whether to ratify Boris Yeltsin's nomination of Sergei Kiriyenko as prime minister.
As legal scholar Randall Kennedy wrote in his book Race, Crime, and the Law , "Even if race is only one of several factors behind a decision, tolerating it at all means tolerating it as potentially the decisive factor."
asked Bill Kristol on ABC's This Week . "It was a chance finally to take decisive action, and the president blinked."
Sports writers debated whether it's a triumph for 1) Knicks guard Allan Houston, a previous underachiever who scored 32 points in the decisive game; 2) Coach Jeff Van Gundy, who had nearly been fired earlier in the season; or 3) New York, whose prestige was already bolstered by cleaner streets and lower crime.
But the decisive factor in the explosion of the Shepard story is the manner of his death.