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...kiss of life." That is quite an achievement. It was Serbs, after all, who dumped the ex-apparatchik from power two years ago and then gleefully tore his campaign posters from city walls. Today his quarrelsome successors have siphoned off some of that anger. And Milosevic, the consummate party hack, has skillfully repackaged himself as an outsider. His decision to represent himself in court combined with his physical isolation in the Hague helped foster the image of one man standing against a powerful foe. So too has the unnamed heart ailment that repeatedly halted proceedings this summer. The absence...
Reich, however, called Tolman’s negative attacks on him those of a “political hack...
...world." When Kabbah, a former civil servant and longtime U.N. official - the U.N. Development Programme, where he worked for 21 years, publishes the report that listed Sierra Leone last - was first elected in 1996, the country was mired in a civil war whose hallmark was rebel soldiers' tendency to hack off the limbs of their victims. Kabbah's initial hold on office was so tenuous that foreign troops had to intervene to reinstate him when he was briefly ousted by disgruntled soldiers in 1997. A cease-fire agreement with the rebels paved the way for the deployment...
...novel begins with the acerbic Dawn Stone, a self-described British "features hack," who takes a magazine job in Hong Kong during the heady days of 1995. Dawn fits in perfectly in Hong Kong's money-mad atmosphere, and Lanchester cuts loose, describing her rapid transformation from wry observer to gleeful participant to seductee, a metamorphosis that culminates when Dawn quits to do P.R. work for her shady billionaire Hong Kong boss. Not that the change from British tabloid hack to media conglomerate shill represents a measurable step-down in ethics...
Harvard’s chance at redemption came against Cornell in the postseason ECAC tournament. In its second chance against Sterman, the Crimson was determined to hack only at good pitches...