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...complicated formula is used to determine a quota (usually about 10 percent of the vote). Candidates who receive that number of votes or more are declared officially elected...
Cynics suggest the eventual formula can only cloak a de facto partition, but Izetbegovic and the U.S. State Department swear they will never agree to any such deal. To create a true state composed of two (or maybe eventually three, given the abiding tensions between Muslims and Croats) discrete and often hostile parts, however, ranks not far below the difficulty Christian theologians have faced in reconciling the idea of one God with the Holy Trinity. Holbrooke provides one hint of potential resolution: "Given the lessons of history, Bosnia is not likely ever to have a strong central government. A loose...
...begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations--and war and bloodshed--drag on forever...
Surely it is not a coincidence, then, that Caroline Kennedy finds herself drawn to the subject of privacy. Following the law-for-the-layman formula of the bestselling In Our Defense, a book on the Bill of Rights that she and Ellen Alderman, a friend from Columbia Law School, wrote in 1991, Kennedy and Alderman have produced The Right to Privacy (Knopf; $25). The new book skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories with a survey of the laws governing what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called "the right to be let alone." Looking at assaults on privacy...
Lucky Jim confirmed Amis' ability to evoke such reactions in print. It also established the author's basic comic strategy: a beleaguered hero tries to behave inoffensively among people whose self-centered behavior drives him privately mad. This formula still sparkled in The Russian Girl (1994), in which a husband meditates on his wife's odd and affected accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind...