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...have plenty of it-a shirtless and bewigged Charles Barkley dressed as our first president; a puff piece titled "Jesus in '96," and presidential candidate makeovers. George reads as if nothing more were at stake in the election than the aesthetics of the face behind that nice blue podium...
...scene in Pale last week could not have taken place even two months ago. The Serbs at the meeting were of the diehard variety, and as Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that...
...suggestion was to require speakers to stand at the podium with a microphone in order to discourage interruptions and focus the council's attention on each speaker...
...YORK sky, but New York City police captain Thomas Lawrence looks as if he's been out in the sun too long. It's just past 7 on the third morning of the new year, and Lawrence, who runs the 10th Precinct in Midtown Manhattan, is standing on a podium in the command control center at police headquarters--the "war room." His face is bright red and a little clammy. His body is wired up tight. He is surrounded by sheaves of statistics, screens filled with computerized maps and charts and N.Y.P.D. bosses, who, amazingly, seem to know as much...
...their jobs and of the cities of Methuen and Lawrence. Feuerstein entered the gym from the back, and as he shook the snow off his coat, the murmurs turned to cheers. The factory owner, who had already given out $275 Christmas bonuses and pledged to rebuild, walked to the podium. "I will get right to my announcement," he said. "For the next 30 days--and it might be more--all our employees will be paid their full salaries. But over and above the money, the most important thing Malden Mills can do for our workers is to get you back...