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...outside the publishing capital of New York City. The books typically cost less than popular secular fiction. Other differences are hard to miss. Sex is not allowed below the eyes. (Fraught gazes carry great weight here, not only conveying love and affection but also standing in for dialogue in dicey situations.) There are no curses or smut, of course, but also no plain-spoken nouns and verbs denoting body parts or functions. Above all, no humor. No jokes, no kidding, no double meanings, no quirks and certainly no irony...
...case, they're not hitting up the National Endowment for the Arts for money. Their work, along with that of nearly 80 other contemporary artists, can now be ordered via an 800 number. The source of this marketing ploy is an innovative free-market effort to compensate for the dicey state of federal arts funding: the Art Matters gift catalog...
...Washington's blueprint works, and that remained dicey, the rough disposition of peoples that is now a fait accompli, thanks to the Croatian army's blitz through the Serb-held Krajina region, would serve as defensible territories for coexistence. One thorn in this rose may really sting the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo: a suggested abandonment of Gorazde, the remnant republic's last outpost in the east, in exchange for Serb concessions of greater breathing space around Sarajevo itself. In turn, the U.S. would lead its allies in committing substantial reconstruction aid to Bosnia and, most important, some...
Given the nature of the war in the Balkans and his own history, Milosevic is clearly a dicey partner. A communist apparatchik under Tito whose parents both committed suicide, he rose to significance in the party as head of the gas monopoly and the largest state bank. He made his political mark in 1987 with a fiery speech to the Serb minority in the province of Kosovo. Many consider that speech the beginning of his rise to power, as well as of the Serbs' nationalist passion and the wars that were inspired...
...placing of wagers across state lines and through the country's communications networks. The company insists there is no problem: "Because we're completely offshore, we eliminate all that nonsense," Warren Eugene, the firm's 33-year-old president, told Bloomberg Business News. But others think things could get dicey once the FBI takes notice: "It's a fascinating question, and I'm sure it's against the law," says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "But how do you prevent it? There's no way to stop people from gambling in their homes...