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...martyrs" of Kosovo. Such displays leave some Serbs wondering whether their country's three-year experiment with Western-style democracy is coming to an end. "Serbs are mad as hell and the Radicals, especially, are positioning themselves to get that protest vote," said Miodrag Popovic, an Apple computer salesman in Belgrade. "I am definitely worried." Should he be? Even if the Radical Party wins more votes than the competition on Dec. 28, analysts say it won't get the majority needed to form a government - and finding a coalition partner will likely prove impossible. "It would be the kiss...
...credit risk, offering cards to just about anyone who cares to fill out an application. Privacy laws make it difficult for companies to share credit information on individuals in South Korea. Access to information is improving, but it's still not possible to verify applicants' incomes. A Seoul cosmetics salesman (who requested anonymity) applied for most of his five cards on street corners, and he says the only check was a phone call to him at his office. He's now $42,000 in debt. "Koreans ate a poison pill," says Kim Kyeong Won of the Samsung Economic Research Institute...
...Choi Pyong Jin, the online bowling-ball salesman, is hoping his business will improve so that he can pay off his bills?but if the government is willing to forgive his debt, he'll happily accept a bailout, he says. For now, he gets 30 calls a day from card companies demanding payment. Taking three calls in the course of an hour, he pretends to be someone else and takes a message. Whether you are a South Korean credit-card company, a corporate conglomerate or a citizen, sometimes the best strategy is to sit tight and wait for someone...
When times are good, life is good for the shoe salesman. When times are bad, life is good for the shoe repairman. In the network-TV business, times are not so good. Its biggest hits are aging and atrophying, with no breakout smash among the fall's new shows. So the networks have hung on to several high-profile series, each with a potentially fatal flaw, to see if they can buff them up and get a few more seasons' use out of them...
Even when the movie sags and strains a bit in Act III, Clooney keeps it flying with old-fashioned movie-star allure. He's got it all: Cary Grant's looks and, inside, Bob Hope's snake-oil-salesman soul...