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...monastery." With his fondness for Tony jewelry, fast cars and Armani suits, Djindjic was slow to win personal affection from his people. But his reforms spoke loudly. With Lukovic and other prime suspects still at large, one local newspaper headline read Serbia returns to darkness. --By Harriet Barovick...
...changing its name. And IHOP says anti-French fervor has not hurt its new breakfast-menu item, Stuffed French Toast. "French toast really has nothing to do with France," notes an IHOP spokesman. "This has been our most successful new product." But what about other French fare? --By Harriet Barovick...
...year-old after learning that her master planned to sell the child. Rankin's sons helped her along to the next safe town, whence she eventually made her way to Ontario. Though her name remains unknown, the woman's story, by way of Rankin, reached the ears of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who used her as the basis for Eliza, the slave who flees across the ice floes in Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...unseating him by force. But what sort of life would that be for a dictator used to a stable of yes-men and all the perks of power and wealth? Not necessarily a bad one, if the fate of most--but not all--exiled despots is any guide. --By Harriet Barovick...
...influential woman by a World Almanac poll in 1978, Lederer cherished her ability to help and read several hundred letters a day while soaking in the bathtub. Offers to buy rights to the Ann Landers name were declined. "When I go," she said, "the column goes with me." --By Harriet Barovick...