Cheap Slate: What's in Today's 'In Today's Papers'

Russian Dressing: TP notes that Boris Yeltsin's night of the long knives leads at USAT and the NYT. Meanwhile, the LAT noodles on the economic impact of oil production cutbacks (a 13 percent one-day rise in prices) and the WP takes on a SCOTUS nondecison on partial birth abortion. The semantic conundrum that has SS tied in knots: Just what exactly is a 'partial-birth' abortion. Answers are requested...