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...great man" theory of history has been out of fashion for decades. Historians trying to explain the course of human events point to geography or climate or technology. They explore the everyday life of ordinary people and the tides of change that sweep through whole populations. When they write about individual historical actors, the emphasis tends to be on psychology. Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers may affect events at the margins, but the notion that history happens because someone decided it should happen is regarded as unenlightening if not simply wrong...
...Mental instability obviously helps explain several of the immolations. But what about Adamec and Másl? Josef Broz, co-author of a 1999 political manifesto that called on mainstream political leaders to resign in favor of politicians untainted by the past, argues that the Feb. 28 election of Václav Klaus as President was "symbolically behind" Adamec's death. A former Finance Minister and two-time Prime Minister, Klaus was elected six days before Adamec died and many see his victory as a triumph of the robber-baron capitalism that so disgusted Adamec. Zdenka Kmuníckov...
...Chirac this week. "We don't want to get in the debate about politics," says Latour, "just sensitize him to the fact that we're having trouble selling our wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone don't explain why official France is shucking off some of its haughty principles and doing what it can to get back in the fold; the hard reality of the swift Anglo-American victory in Iraq gives it little alternative. Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since...
...wracked with remorse and everyone blames her; he recovers, only to realize he always had a fancy for another girl, famed for having two sets of teeth. All of which makes it a bit alarming that Rhodes says his love tales are written from experience - though it would explain the exhaustion that has led him to lay down his pen. "I don't want to go back to that level of commitment where writing takes over my life for years," he says. "And I'd hate to write with less dedication." In Timoleon Vieta Come Home, at least, he manages...
...nervous soldier asked me to go explain the situation to the bespectacled staff sergeant, who had been attempting to calm the situation by telling the demonstrators, who did not speak English, that the U.S. patrol meant no harm. He finally lost his temper when an Iraqi told him gently, "You must...