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...Paul Rein, 35, Swedish
...Paul Rein's musical apprenticeship began in the early '80s. A Swedish pop phenom, Rein drove teenage girls into adoring delirium and even up trees. After three albums, his star faded - "I had nothing left to give" - but he learned how to relate to audiences and "how to get the right twist" in songs. He moved into the studio, writing radio ad jingles. He learned not only how to program and arrange, but also what works on air. "If the hook's not there in seconds, you're dead," he advises...
...proposal to invite Yugoslav troops to help rein in Albanian nationalists appears to be a 180-degree turnabout for the Western alliance, that may be because NATO's original Kosovo intervention has failed to resolve the region's fundamental political problem. Nobody in the Balkans took particularly seriously the idea of a democratic multiethnic Kosovo championed by President Clinton and others, and no sooner had those Albanians driven out by Serb ethnic cleansing returned to the territory than KLA elements were launching their own ethnic cleansing campaign against Kosovo's remaining Serbs and other minorities as NATO for the most...
...Although the peace process requires Arafat's Palestinian Authority to police terrorist activities in areas under their control, they too have proven unwilling or unable to rein in the militants, more so since the onset of the latest intifada last October...
...Faberge), she understood that the day would come when she would have to admit to the world what she had done. In the absence of a law (the Senate gift ban didn't take effect for Hillary until Jan. 3) or an active conscience, you might think shame would rein in the Clintons. How many people would park in a handicapped space if they knew the next morning's paper would carry a picture of it? Answer: no one not in need of therapy...