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Feeling a little nostalgic for communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last...
...Blue Train reflects Tito's hedonistic lifestyle: it features the finest woolen carpets and car walls lined with mahogany carvings, and compartments furnished with silk drapes and burgundy leather armchairs. It's a true hotel on rails, including a dining car, cinema and three elaborately designed saloon cars, one of which was made especially for Charles de Gaulle in the late '60s. The legendary French President never actually used it, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth did?she slept there during her 1972 visit to Yugoslavia (it's commemorated on a bronze timetable on the car's side). True Tito buffs...
...dead-on impression of Reagan, but the resemblance did not end there. Both men defined how to accrue and wield power in the mass-media age. They were two of the last broadcasters: Carson, compared with today's niche entertainers; Reagan, contrasted against today's red-and-blue-fixated political micromarketers. Both were Midwesterners transplanted to California who merged their coastal charm and Middle American affability...
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...opinion, is more than fair—but skepticism does not demand obstinate opposition, it merely demands vigilance on behalf of higher moral principles. Bush has taken the first step, and it was in the right direction. It is now up to those of us, red or blue, who are prone to moral posturing to seize on the president’s words and force him, and America at large, to live up to them...