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...hopeful president-elect. While his supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, their nemesis still sat in his White Palace, as Belgrade dubs his official seat of power. He's used vote fraud, trumped-up crises and constitutional finagling to stay in power before. Serbs were finally brave enough to cast their votes against him. To get him out of his palace for good, they may have to take his power into their own hands...
...field of family studies (who tend to quarrel at least as bitterly as the dysfunctional clans they analyze), she's a polarizing figure. To her admirers, this mother of three and grandmother of five, who has been married to the same man for 53 years, is a brave, compassionate voice in the wilderness. To her detractors, she's a melodramatic doomsayer, a crank...
There were so many once-in-a-lifetime sights at the opening ceremony: Rupert Murdoch wearing mittens on his hands, Bill Gates waving a paper American flag, children with lawn mowers drawing Olympic rings. But the highlight was the parade of nations--and their brave fashion statements...
...much ignored by his powerful father, the unpromising younger brother of Hero-Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with hidden passages, speaking in code, trusting no one completely...Although he affected simplicity and directness, he became an extraordinarily complicated...
...hearts ached with hope and then broke with sadness at news of the loss of life of the brave men aboard the Kursk submarine [WORLD, Aug. 28]! We hope they have not died in vain and the leaders of Russia will learn that a loss of face is more acceptable than a terrible and unnecessary loss of life. MAUREEN DUNN Monrovia, Calif...