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Lugar looks ready to bolt as he steps into a dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed...
...Dallas, where the fixed-price vehicles carry discounts of $1,800 to $2,000 below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. "People appreciate a low-pressure place that offers a fair price," says MidPark co-owner Jim DeWolfe. That spreading realization could soon turn the car dealer as shark into an endangered species...
...group had formed around Henri in Philadelphia. Henri's original family name was Cozad--he was a very distant relation of Mary Cassatt--but his father, a riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist...
...people like their placebos, that's their business, you say. Well, not quite. Once, if you took shark cartilage for your cancer, it was your business. It is now becoming public business. As of Jan. 1, it is illegal in Washington State for health-insurance companies to deny payment for licensed "natural" health care. Blue Cross will be picking up your massage and herbal doctor bills...
...SHORTY A movie-mad mobster (dreamy, incisive John Travolta) reinvents himself as a movie mogul. He's a real shark chewing up Hollywood's rubbery simulacrums while helping some bottom feeders rise to the top in Barry Sonnenfeld's jaunty, well-acted comedy of bad manners...