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Like other dictators of this age, Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes to is huge," says a Western diplomat. "But his purpose is to throw people into confusion...
Romeo, 23, stops mopping the dining hall floor and looks at me. "Mira," he says. "I have seven people in my family. I have bills, rent, insurance. Not even two full time jobs at this salary would be enough...
...blase is not unique to our treatment of the candidates for the council's top jobs. The same can be said for student attitudes toward star athletes, musicians or scientists. As much as we enjoy claiming famous alumni like Al Gore '69, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Mira Sorvino '89, we are often unwilling to grant our fellow students the title of campus superstar...
...played by Vasquez) of mid-century Paris how endearing and tender this supposed easy woman can be. The whore with a heart of gold? It's been done, you say. But not to the music of Giuseppe Verdi: the passion and the thrill of his music will make every Mira Sorvino '89/Elisabeth Shue '88/Kim Basinger poseur-hooker seem like a mean-hearted trollop in relation to the radiant and self-sacrificing Violetta...
...Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with Serbs increasingly unhappy with Milosevic, the Butcher of the Balkans may rue the day he let his hatchet...