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...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...
...make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
...last year an auto accident that grievously injured his 9-year-old daughter. The private side has won out, as Tartikoff relinquished his Paramount post last week to spend more time with his recuperating child. His 15-month reign included the rough seas of the plodding Columbus epic 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the register-ringing teen-twitter Wayne's World...
...with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...
Employees braced for a take-no-prisoners conquest. Together with president Jack Smith, 54, the former head of GM's profitable overseas operations, Smale and the board seemed poised to purge Stempel's top lieutenants and embark on a sweeping new round of layoffs to restructure the former flagship of American industry. "GM is spooked and in complete turmoil," said a longtime supplier. "It is faced with total upheaval caused by an outside force -- something that once was unthinkable...