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...every pre-trial appearance, Milosevic has responded with political diatribes. He has labeled the charges against him "absurd" and "monstrous," the prosecutor a NATO mouthpiece, the court a "retarded seven-year-old." He has called himself a peacemaker who's on trial to cover up NATO aggression against a sovereign country. The rants have led presiding Judge Richard May to cut off Milosevic's microphone. Milosevic has dropped hints that he might stage a grand scene by calling a parade of Western leaders to testify, starting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will...
...told Tansy Harris, the self-absorbed heroine of Emily Barr's debut novel Backpack (Plume; 310 pages). Tansy is a glamorous young Englishwoman with glamorous friends and a glamorous media job who has no more direction in life than the location of the next line of coke. When her monstrous alcoholic mother dies, Tansy survives an overdose and decides to escape London for what she sees as stylish and beautiful Asia with her awful boyfriend Tom. When Tom backs out, an enraged Tansy goes alone. Not to find herself, but for the social cachet she anticipates when she returns home...
...just as soon as the momentum had swung to Princeton, the Crimson stole it back on the next two possessions. A lay-up by Gellert followed by a monstrous, breakaway dunk by junior guard Brady Merchant pulled Harvard within...
...they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat...Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The bodies of his victims were heaped across Europe from Stalingrad to London. The ruin in terms of human life was forever incalculable. It had required...
Movements for social change that effect true and lasting reform are as much about the communities that make them necessary as they are about the particular groups that impede their progress. They may begin as a clash between a David and a monstrous, all-powerful Goliath, but they must end with a collective renewal. Finger-pointing gets old after awhile, particularly when those doing the pointing may easily, 50 years later, become those who are pointed...