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Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...
...high school student in Toledo, Ohio, Frankel obsessed over financial markets. As an adult and college dropout, he fretted over the opportunities he perceived were passing him by. Of medium build, with brown hair and a diffident, stumbling, yet loquacious manner, Frankel came across as a possessor of arcane knowledge that would empower him and his clients. "He is the most inconspicuous guy you can imagine," says Jeff Creamer, a Toledo lawyer who represented two of Frankel's earliest victims. "That, coupled with what appears to be an Einstein-like devotion to the financial world, makes [people] think they have...
...years since his suicide on July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway has had more books come out under his name than he managed to turn out during the last two decades of his life. Over that latter span, he published only Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Thanks to the piles of manuscripts, in varying stages of completion, that he left behind for his estate to ponder, four new Hemingways appeared after his death: A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985) and The Garden...
...campaign stops across northern New Hampshireon Sunday, McCain also outlined the other goals hesaid would guide him as president, calling forschool voucher programs and strong nationaldefense...
...service is friendly, and their location across from Widener Gate is ideal...