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...Puffy in the lobby he greets me, steps away from his bodyguard, and spends a few minutes chatting with me about what's gone down in his life in the last 24 hours or so. Puffy seems quite composed, given what he's been through lately. His voice is calm, his face placid, his eyes shaded below the brim of a blue baseball cap. He has a two-way pager in his hand and he's firing off messages about who knows what to who knows whom. But when we start to talk he gives me his complete attention...
...Exactly. Here you have a situation where a relatively small band of extremists, the guerrillas and their political backers, have taken the initiative and are dictating the rules. Perhaps the international community thinks satisfying their present appetites would calm things down. I seriously doubt this. If such use of force as we're seeing in Macedonia is politically rewarded, everybody in the Balkans would immediately learn the lesson and new flash points will quickly emerge throughout the region...
ROAD SHOW On his first trip as U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell dashed through six countries in four days. Despite high-level meetings (with Yasser Arafat and others) on delicate topics (Iraqi sanctions and others), he remained the quintessence of calm. Illustration for TIME by Michelle Chang...
...example is the downsizing of the steel industry," says Roy Adams, a professor of industrial relations at Canada's McMaster University who has long championed works councils in North America. "Over here, we went through terrible times in steel, but in Germany they had the same reorganization amid relative calm, mostly because the works councils were able to navigate through the nitty-gritty of how to humanely lay people...
...below the surface in Uganda. There have been kidnappings and beatings of supporters of both men. Museveni has yet to explain convincingly why he had a Besigye campaign official arrested two weeks ago. Tales of voter intimidation are legion. Both Museveni and Besigye continually ask their supporters to stay calm. But aggressive government security officers and the angry, jobless young men who jam Besigye's rallies keep nerves on edge. The election is March 12. But Dorothy Parker provided the lesson a long time ago, "Scratch a lover, and find...