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Soon after, another pillar of Milosevic's authority fell away. The protesters moved on to the tower home of Radio Television Serbia. It was not only the regime's crucial mouthpiece--without it Milosevic could not counter the clamor in the streets--but also its most despised tool. A special antiterrorist unit had been set in place to confront any trouble. These troops resisted longer, firing tear gas and a few stray bullets. But when the protesters drew up their excavator and set the entry on fire, overwhelmed troops scooted out the back. The broadcast--the only one seen regularly...
...overdue, say disability-rights advocates. "In general, the international community has failed to recognize that the abuses against people with disabilities are pervasive and constitute international human-rights violations," says Eric Rosenthal, executive director of Mental Disability Rights International. But the new doorway to America has its critics, who counter that asylum laws were not intended for the disabled. They are worried that interpreting the law in such a manner could lead to a flood of disabled refugees seeking advanced medical treatments in the U.S. under the guise of escaping persecution. "The categories for a social group seem...
...laugh-out-loud-and-frighten-the-horses funny of Martin's early stand-up comedy, or of his performance as the man-woman in All of Me, or the humor pieces in his collection Pure Drivel. Shopgirl, which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal to the intelligent heart. Sitting in a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Martin muses that if you were to tape-record...
Mirabelle is a study in isolation. When not standing sentinel behind the counter, she works on eerie drawings. Pretty and slim, she is so shy, so inexpert in marketing herself, that people don't notice her--or, if they do see her, think of Olive Oyl. Ray, though, has a more discerning eye than most. A rich businessman on a field trip for erotic adventure, he stops at her counter to buy a pair of gloves, and--a nice touch--sends them to her. Thus begins a courtship defined by emotional compromise, misunderstood signals and the sort of betrayals that...
...premise: man (Tom Cavanagh) is cuckolded by wife, loses Manhattan law-firm job, buys bowling alley in Stuckeyville, Ohio, opens a legal practice amid the tenpins and romances his high school love (Julie Bowen). Hence too the oddball characters: the preening slacker selling Kobe beef behind the bowling-shoe counter, the doddering magician suing a rival for revealing his secrets...