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...self-concept. Africans on both sides of the Atlantic also broadened their concepts of collective identity. European colonies extended rights of denization (a preliminary to citizenship) to those coming from any part of Europe ? including Jews ? before such rights were available in the respective mother countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance to the trade increased over the decades so that there was much more likelihood of a slave ship rebellion being successful in the second...
...political elites that have kept the Serb strongman in power begin trying to secure their own positions in a post-Milosevic Yugoslavia. Already the rabid nationalists of Vojislav Seselj's Radical Party - once the most bellicose backers of Milosevic's military misadventures of the past decade - have jumped ship, proclaiming a Kostunica victory and urging that it be respected. Kostunica is no NATO shill - he even suggested the Western alliance may have committed war crimes during last year's bombing campaign during the Kosovo crisis - and it's far from inconceivable that the military would be comfortable with...
Pressures from within also helped bring down Pop--a catalog of cluelessness that would make a classic how-not-to business book. Kenneth Wong, who had no Internet experience but oversaw cruise-ship attractions and theme-park rides as Imagineering head for Disney, was put in charge of the site by Katzenberg. Other executives were plucked from the world of multimillion-dollar budgets and told to produce shorts for $10,000. Personal favors were rife: one staff member says Steve Martin got a budget-busting $100,000 for projects, including Gwyneth and Me, a comedy short about his attempts...
Annan's critics find his outlook naive. His aides even joke about his world view, calling it "Star Trek Planet," after the show on which Russians and Scots worked merrily on dilithium-crystal drives as their ship shot through space at warp speed. That world is as remote as transporter beams. Annan's critics also lash him for his willingness to "do business" with anyone. When he returned from negotiations in Baghdad in 1998 and mildly said he had "a good human rapport" with Saddam Hussein, the White House shrieked. Others said he sounded like Neville Chamberlain praising Hitler. Annan...
There was one little-known and questionable belt-tightening measure last holiday season. Amazon required hundreds of staff members to ship out from headquarters and pitch in at distribution centers around the country. This year it will be voluntary--and with good reason. "Morale was horrible," says a former employee who got three days' notice of the move. "[The distribution staff] thought we were there to take their jobs." Upon her return, she found a memo warning staff members not to disclose that they had been used as temp labor...