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...guerrilla attack on the small red-roofed town of Aracinovo on the outskirts of the capital earlier this month stirred panic in Skopje, emptying the streets and causing NATO to rethink its approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo...
...Tanaka is not especially handsome: he's short of stature, doughy-faced and displays a conspicuously well-fed belly. While a college student, he won a prestigious literary prize for a novel about Japan's alienated youth, and then turned himself into a peculiarly Japanese breed of writer-pundit-celebrity famous for simply saying outrageous things. This career puts him in a newly popular club of politicians with a single platform: to rock Japan's long-coddled boat. Koizumi and his feisty Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka (no relation to the Nagano Governor), are the most visible examples from within...
...could be that because murder is so rare in Japan, the public has the luxury of according its most outrageous murderers near-celebrity status. A decade ago, when Issei Sagawa was returned to Japan from a European mental hospital, after murdering and cannibalizing his girlfriend, he became a pundit on television shows and was given his own newspaper column. Obara's arrest prompted a deluge of phone calls to the British embassy from Japanese who wanted to express their shame. But at the same time, hostesses in Roppongi report a rash of male customers introducing themselves as "Joji Obara." Amelia...
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DIED. ROWLAND EVANS, 79, nationally syndicated columnist and television pundit; of cancer; in Washington. Over the years, Evans worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun-Times. In 1963 he teamed with fellow journalist Robert Novak; the two subsequently penned joint columns, co-wrote several books and for nearly 20 years acted as hosts of a show...