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John is a short, wiry man of 47, with a red beard and red hair and fierce china-blue eyes. His father took him out of school when he was 14 to apprentice him to a butcher. He is self-educated, and he reads all the time when he's not drinking or down the shaft. His literary range is wider than that of most educated Americans I've met, and he talks beautifully. His father was a Stalinist union organizer, and though John is no longer a communist--few miners are; they're too solitary and anarchic by temperament...
...result of a neck hold during a 1994 altercation with police; he was a double amputee whose prosthetic legs came off during the struggle. And a civil trial awaits in the 1996 police killing of a 16-year-old Hispanic, shot 25 times while armed with a butcher knife...
...does this spell the end for "the Butcher of the Balkans"? It's unlikely, at least in the short term. Nobody holds on to power as mercilessly as Milosevic. In the dictator's best-case scenario, he can hope for continuing control, thanks to a paucity of opponents and the postwar inertia of a beaten population. But if there are uprisings against him at home, he is more than ready to crush them. And while his indictment by the Hague war-crimes tribunal means he can't hope for a cushy retirement in any U.N.-compliant country, there are some...
...check with anybody before they cut a deal with Jackson. They just did it, providing him with instant gratification and themselves with a propaganda bonanza that typically includes the reverend's fervently imploring the U.S. President to give them a call. If Jackson were to bad-mouth the butcher with whom he was just holding hands and praying, the next one just might turn him away...
...journal Science has paleontologists in such a stir. An international expedition working in Ethiopia found a partial skull of a new species of human ancestor from 2.5 million years ago, right in the middle of the gap. They also discovered evidence that someone was using tools to butcher animals in the same location at approximately the same time. And they found fossil arm, leg and foot bones that will provide experts with important clues about how human ancestors were built in those days. Exclaims anatomist Alan Walker of Pennsylvania State University: "This is really exciting...