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Nearly seven years after the fall of Milosevic, the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party got the most votes at the polls. How do you explain that? This protest vote is slowly eroding but is still strong. But the overall vote at the Jan. 21 elections is clear: two-thirds of our citizens support European integration and economic reform. The Radicals will never be in government, at least not until they change their platform completely...
...changes in the way people read newspapers and online, I think, have weakened the importance of any one specific endorsement. But of course I'd like everyone to endorse the Conservative Party - but I believe you've got to do what you think is right and explain to people what you're going to stand for, and then let people make up their own minds. I didn't win the leadership of the Conservative Party because I was backed by lots of newspapers. I won the leadership of the Conservative Party because I had the right ideas about changing...
...grosses don't explain why United 93, Paul Greengrass' meticulous, creepy and critically acclaimed 9/11 docudrama, failed to nab a slot. It pulled in a respectful $31.5 million here, $44.1 million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger...
...loathed him on principle. Let me explain: he's charismatic, confident, talented, tall, young, handsome and has lots of hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play...
...Finding out much about the site or who is behind it is not easy, which may explain the suspicion building around it. The site says its organizers include Chinese dissidents, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. In an e-mail to TIME, a Wikileaks organizer named James Chen wrote, "We are serious people working on a serious project... three advisors have been detained by Asian government, one of us for over six years." Yet the speculation that Wikileaks might a front for an intelligence agency is understandable, considering the recent arrival...