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Bosko Drobnjak is the regional Serbian information official in Pristina. His ostentatious office is protected by a minor official playing video games on a dirty, out-of-date computer. Those who make it past the flunky to see Drobnjak get a curt summary of the Serbian position: "I don't know why people are so concerned about the treatment terrorists are getting," he says, chuckling...
...Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who has traveled to China to lecture at Drexel's sister school there, presented Jiang with a parting gift. As Weldon described the dual importance of cultivating the mind and the body, he pulled out a white and orange Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey with Jiang's name in black...
...failure. The youngest of five children, whose father abandoned the family shortly after his birth in rural Georgia, Jackie was taken, along with his siblings, by their mother Mallie from the segregated South to Pasadena, Calif. But Jim Crow restrictions existed there too. His elementary school transcript contained a curt note about the young boy's probable future: "Gardener." Jackie's extraordinary athletic abilities--in football, basketball, baseball and track--won the cheers of the same townspeople who would not allow him to swim in the municipal pool...
...assembled a team of heavyweight political advisers to help him overcome the skeptics. Heading up the effort is DON FIERCE, a consultant who served as Haley Barbour's top aide when Barbour ran the Republican National Committee. Two other veterans of Barbour's successful R.N.C. operation, ED GILLESPIE and CURT ANDERSON, the former R.N.C. field director, are onboard, as are top G.O.P. pollster ED GOEAS and consultants STUART STEVENS and RUSS SCHRIEFER. Kasich's advisers have been busy pushing him to broaden his range beyond fiscal policy into the fertile Republican terrain of social-values issues. And one more image...
...sitting down and slinging his leg over her shoulder or urging him to dry her toenails: "Blow on 'em, Sugar." Here was an adult sexuality Hollywood had rarely shown. It surfaces again in the French Tamango (1957), where Dandridge--as Aiche, the half-caste slave mistress of captain Curt Jurgens--summons a complex ferocity, connecting with Aiche's hurt as well as her love-hatred of the man who owns...