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Bruno the "assembly room coordinator" was our commandante for the week: a short, tubby man with an appropriately overstated "New York" accent. He was clearly in control. He held in his hands the ability to show us clemency or sentence us to the maximum penalty: two full weeks of sitting in that damned room as if we were waiting for an endlessly-delayed flight. Every once in a while, he would look up, bring his mouth to the small microphone on his desk and say, "The following jurors will report to the fourth floor..." I had mixed feelings at these...
...Serb Democratic Party, which Karadzic headed, from the election and renew international economic sanctions against Serbia, Holbrooke scored at least a half-success. Milosevic and senior Bosnian Serb leaders forced Karadzic to resign his party post and step out of public life. "We fell short of our maximum goal, which is to have Karadzic out of power and out of the country," Holbrooke said in an interview with TIME. But he emphasized that the accord will allow the elections to go forward. Karadzic and his lieutenants have agreed to the text's statement that "[Karadzic] will not appear in public...
...married to distribution will allow a company to create, seamlessly, new products for the digital age. As the dial evolves into hundreds of channels and on-demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research...
...wealth and privilege, but he will pay for it in an exacting round of obligations in which any spontaneous word or gesture will probably land him in trouble. Novelist Allan Massie, who is also a royals observer, points out that as Prince of Wales, William will have maximum opportunity to let slip things he'll soon regret saying. While a monarch's speeches are cleared with the government of the day, the Prince of Wales is free--or freer anyway--to say what he thinks...
Think of the implications of this startling fact for the average woman facing a fitting-room mirror. Nothing can make you fully beach ready: not total abstinence from carbos and fat, not Madonna's workout regimen, not even a $100 suit hot-wired for maximum curves. If Julia Roberts is deemed too unsightly for a seminude scene, what hope can there be for the rest...