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...Admiral Leighton Smith went to Pale, the heart of Bosnian Serb territory, on Tuesday to discuss details of the transition to peace. As a reminder of how close to war they still are, Smith and his party, including a dozen bodyguards, traveled in armored vehicles and entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear...
...Tumulty got her Ph.D. in Gingrich," says senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the profile of the Speaker of the House that appears in this issue. "I'd ask her about some obscure detail about the appropriations process, or about some event that occurred 20 years ago that shaped his thinking. And within hours--sometimes minutes--she would call back with a rich, lucid account pulled from her notebooks." This she did, Tumulty notes ruefully, while closing on a new house, turning 40 and coping with being five months pregnant with her second child (she and husband Paul Richter have...
...were slaughtered in a Siberian hovel that their graceful life has such enduring appeal. Nicholas and Alexandra were shutterbugs themselves and kept scrapbooks that record the growth of their pretty children and the family's annual progress through palaces and yachts. The heart of the book is its eloquent detail. The tsarevich's little drum, the tsarina's snowy parasols have the impact of domestic artifacts found in a mummy's tomb, bringing a remote past shockingly alive...
...letters to many of the lobbyists the bill is supposed to rein in. Even in a city inured to the crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention in San Diego next August. The more contributors give--$15,000, $45,000, $150,000 or $250,000--the more they get in return...
...finger-twisting show-stopper like Leopold Godowsky's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss II's "Artist's Life," or kiddin' on the keys with Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, or digging into one of the late Beethoven sonatas, Wild brings the same impeccable attention to structure and detail. "I spend a lot of time with these pieces," he says, "because if you don't know them thoroughly, you're just struggling like crazy to play the notes. But when you hear middle voices and the other details--when you have the tones in your head--it makes it much...