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...Bulgarian capital was brought to a standstill by thousands of cab drivers protesting the abduction and killing of a taxi driver's three-year-old son. Interior Minister Emanuil Yordanov said he would resign if police did not find the boy's killer within days. The discovery of the child's body in a city park only hours after his street abduction provoked widespread anger among citizens who say authorities do little to curb violent crime. Prime Minister Ivan Kostov said parliament would hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the crisis, amid opposition calls for the government's resignation...
...Saudi commanders stormed a Russian airliner hijacked by Chechen rebels, freeing more than 100 passengers and crew. Saudi authorities said three people were killed in the rescue operation, which was authorized after hijackers threatened to blow up the plane. The Interior Ministry said a flight attendant was stabbed to death by the hijackers during the siege. Gunfire killed a hijacker and a Turkish passenger. Three hijackers seized control of the Moscow-bound Tuplov 154 jet as it left Istanbul airport, issuing a list of demands including an end to Russia's military campaign in Chechnya. The Saudis said they decided...
...interior of the ministry is still outfitted partly with rotary-dial phones. And typewriters. Bells chime every workday at 3 p.m. to remind employees to do their calisthenics. Small things, of course, but they are signs that while the U.S. zipped along a new technological path in the 1990s, Japan was stuck in a slow-motion devolution from economic miracle to financial debacle, doing things the old way by subsidizing money-losing industries. "I used to be asked quite a lot to give advice to Americans, to explain our success," says Ryozo Hayashi, a vice minister. "But it's been...
There aren't many artistic conventions that work as well, or as easily, as the depiction of dreams in comics. Only photography, which efficiently and accurately captures the exterior world, compares with comics' ability to capture the interior world of our unconscious. Dream comics have become an entire subgenre of the art form, and it's easy to see why. Mere words could never capture the phantasmagoria of our dreamscape...
...last week found that just over 50% of Serbs would agree to send Milosevic to the Hague if the alternative were losing Western aid. At the same time, the perils of even local prosecution are becoming clear. Not long ago, gunmen fired (unsuccessfully) at the vehicle carrying the new Interior Minister; earlier, the driver of the new head of state security was shot as he waited for his boss outside Djindjic's office...