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Defender of the Serbs--it was a seductive image, one that reached back across 600 years of Slavic victimization and imbued the solid, fleshy-faced and silver-haired man with the mystique of historical destiny. In a nation searching for a post-cold war identity, the aura served as an express ticket to total power. Conducting a new symphony of ethnic hate, Milosevic stepped into the top slot once occupied by Tito. Virtually his first act was to revoke the autonomy Tito had granted to the Albanians in Kosovo. Playing up nationalist passions, Milosevic helped ignite full-scale ethnic rivalry...
...politician, he is said to be insecure, even paranoid. U.S. diplomats, eager to point up what they see as limits to his popularity, say he is so fearful for his personal security that he refuses to go out in public. While he may partly be cultivating the dictator's aura of mystery, some Serbs say he is fundamentally a deeply suspicious, withdrawn and secretive person...
Stocks, however, particularly name-brand stocks, have taken on the aura of a high-interest annuity, to the point that "conservative" moneymen like Warren Buffett bank on stocks with 30 and 40 price-to-earnings multiples, like Disney and Coke and Gillette. Being fully invested, once the province only of the biggest bozos and wild-eyed optimists, now seems to be the duty of every red-blooded American, no matter what age or income bracket. Even more amazing, there is a whole new class of equity holders that regards regard Buffet's buy-and-hold strategy as boring--too safe...
...never lost his taste for the Olympian, however, or for conferring its aura on lesser mortals. One such was Madame Ines Moitessier, the wife of a rich cigar importer, whom he painted not once but twice, in the prime of her beauty. Ingres, though a happily married man, was considerably smitten by her, and rhapsodized about her "terrible and beautiful head...those beautiful eyes, that divine face...
...restaurant's closely placed ten tables give it an aura of intimacy...