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...rutted dirt road leads to Vojnik, a farming village of 200 houses and 2,000 ethnic Albanians. Devoutly Muslim and speaking a complex, ancient language derived from Illyrian, the people here are the most doggedly independent of the approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...
...failed. Indeed, Seed in recent years appears to have suffered some financial reversals. Until last summer he and his third wife Gloria lived in a two-story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult to make money but extremely easy to lose it. I lost a couple of million dollars...
...single mother. With the schedule in flux, that show will have a tougher time finding an audience. Fortunately for NBC, it still has the rest of the season to experiment. It could build up Frasier or 3rd Rock by putting them after Seinfeld. Meanwhile, Just Shoot Me, a modest success starring Laura San Giacomo as an editor who works for a women's magazine owned by her father, is being given a Thursday tryout, as is NewsRadio, a clever show that in three seasons has never lived up to its ratings potential...
Although there is often one novel by someone like Updike or DeLillo on the Best Sellers' list, most literary novels sell modestly. But in 1997 news stories reported that many publishing houses, under bottom-line pressure from conglomerate bosses, were becoming unwilling to publish writers with modest sales...
...seem increasingly interested in photogenic authors. Would she make an alluring book-jacket photograph? Would he be viable as the subject of a magazine spread that concentrates on what he wears while chopping wood? Toward the end of 1997, news coverage of the industry was less about writers with modest sales (so-called midlist writers) than about particularly attractive writers whose books had spent months on the Best Sellers' list--beneficiaries of what the critics might call the Hunk and Babe Effect...