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The networks' offers last week fell well short of Taylor's vision. All promised to somehow work more face time for the candidates into their regular news programming. ABC extended an hour of prime time in the last week of the campaign, inviting the candidates to sit in the same...
Paramilitary units, says Seselj, knew they were doing the bidding of Milosevic, but his leadership was always cagey. He did not issue direct war commands; he merely made his "intentions" plain and "requested" that his subordinates devise ways to carry them out. "I never heard Milosevic order ethnic cleansing," says...
But the hype and expectations fell stunningly short of what actually happened when the bidding finally began last Tuesday night. Ticket holders who had braved a gauntlet of security guards, bag searches, metal detectors and TV reporters to reach the auction room quickly realized they had boarded an elevator going...
Once the bidding and gavel pounding began, an answer quickly emerged: very high, unbelievably high. Perhaps the best indication on the opening night of the stratospheres ahead came with the offering of a small stool with a torn, faded and stained satin cover. Sotheby's had estimated its market value...
And then there was the suddenly famous cigar humidor given to J.F.K. in 1961 by comedian Milton Berle. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the magazine Cigar Aficionado, set his sights on it because he worked as a high school volunteer during Kennedy's 1960 campaign for the presidency and, well, because...