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...suggests he plans to do his best to turn his trial into a political tribunal of his nemeses, and he'll almost certainly do his utmost to embarrass the Western powers who at different points in the '90s treated him variously as the guarantor of Balkan stability and the fount of Balkan instability...
...Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound in Beijing after the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...
With these two men in key positions, the TVA soon became a fount of largesse for other Gore supporters and advisers. Within weeks of Crowell's and Hayes' swearing in, the TVA hired Washington lobbyist Peter Knight, who had run Gore's House and Senate offices for years and helped direct his 1988 presidential bid. It is questionable how badly Knight was needed. The TVA already had four in-house lobbyists, as well as plenty of Congressmen from its seven-state service region, fighting for its interests. It also had a Vice President who hardly needed coaxing to support...
...Delphic: This bastion of Greek culture has a wonderful library with both first edition works of prominent social theorists and a stunning collection of original Mapplethorpe prints. In fact, the clever allusion in the name to the Greek fount of Western society betrays (some would say obfuscates) an adherence to, as one club member argues, "an enlightenment ethos which struggles to maintain its integrity in a fractured post-modern society...
Colleagues describe a Carrey who is selflessly dedicated to his work, a perfectionist always looking for ways to turn a joke around and make it better, an endless fount of ideas. He, on the other hand, describes himself as someone forced to serve his fertile imagination as much as it serves him. As a kid, he says, "there was no place in the world I wanted to be except in my bedroom, drawing pictures. I got so lost in it that if my mother wanted me to do something normal, take the garbage out or anything, I would literally have...