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...dissolution, that allows Serbia's cabinet to ignore any federal law it doesn't like. Without telling anyone, including Kostunica, the cabinet effectively refused to comply with the high court's ruling. Within three hours Milosevic was on his way to the Hague. The transfer blindsided Kostunica, the modest constitutional lawyer who ousted Milosevic last October; in a television address Thursday night he called it illegal. "Someone from within," he said, in a reference to Djindjic, "was in a rush to deliver some unknown promise...
...Last Five Years, having its premiere at Chicago's Northlight Theater, composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown manages something just as hard; he turns a modest, 80-minute, two-character musical into a richly satisfying emotional journey. It starts with a narrative gimmick. A man and woman tell the story, in alternating musical numbers, of their five-year relationship. She tells it backward in time; he tells it forward. She begins at the rueful end of a marriage and moves toward the love-struck beginning. He opens as a giddy guy going on a date and winds up the betrayer...
RETIRING. CAL RIPKEN, 40, Baltimore Orioles infielder who chased down Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record of 2,130 consecutive games played, setting a new record of 2,632 before voluntarily ending his streak on Sept. 20, 1998; in Baltimore, Md. After 20 years of modest and steady service, Ripken, now batting .209, will bow out at the end of the season...
Despite all these interests and skills, Shah said that she was extremely modest...
...Previous inaugurations have varied in size and tone. For University President Derek C. Bok, who preceded Rudenstine, the inauguration was a modest affair...