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...even his allies wondered whether the taciturn scholar had it in him to lead a popular revolt. He did. Kostunica didn't want events to be settled in Belgrade's streets, but once the revolution started, his simultaneous exhortations for freedom and peace helped ensure that it remained bloodless. True to form, Kostunica displayed little emotion during the tumult. And as the uprising abated, he assumed the duties of head of state with such purposeful dispatch that an inauguration seemed anticlimactic. Analysts in Belgrade termed the overthrow of Milosevic "a miraculous event," but the ease with which Kostunica embraced...
...forms of cheating, it also entirely discounts the 10-point victory that even the official results had given Kostunica in the first round. But all of that may be academic now that the opposition has moved to claim power directly - Kostunica moved to bring things to a quick and bloodless end Thursday by appealing to the military to recognize his victory in the presidential election. So far, there has been no answer, although the security forces have also avoided coming down hard behind Milosevic...
...tribes of the Decided form. This is great in many ways--sheer liberation, democracy juiced up to a new dimension. But with a dangerous side effect. To be of the tribe of the Undecided is to belong to a bloodless, dying breed--you are shunned, held in contempt. To be Undecided means you are still looking, suspending judgment, still thinking. A culture balkanized by sound bite does not tolerate the ambivalent--which may mean it does not tolerate certain traditional processes of thought. In a world armed with speedy modems, reason tends to yield to instinct. I have always thought...
Politicians aren't supposed to like journalists. We tend to be speed bumps in their otherwise smooth road to being thought of as flawless human beings. Most politicians, like Gore, deal with this by treating each article as a new transaction, a bloodless negotiation between professionals that leaves nothing personal behind. Bush, however, treats each story like a new credit or debit in his family ledger. It's all personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special...
Politicians aren't supposed to like journalists. We tend to be speed bumps in their otherwise smooth road to being thought of as flawless human beings. Most politicians, like Gore, deal with this by treating each article as a new transaction, a bloodless negotiation between professionals that leaves nothing personal behind. Bush, however, treats each story like a new credit or debit in his family ledger. It's all personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special...