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...heart of every great criminal enterprise, prosecutors will tell you, is an insider willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-President behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Song of the Insider | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...heart of every great criminal enterprise, prosecutors will tell you, is an insider willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-president behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratting Out Slobo | 4/10/2001 | See Source »

...detecting the early warning signs of colorectal disease." It's anything but. When customers open the $7.99 kit, they must make their way through a lengthy instruction sheet to learn the correct procedure for dropping a sequence of tissues into the toilet bowl to test for blood in the stool. The smallest error--such as leaving the tissue in the commode for an extra 30 seconds--can cause dramatically inaccurate results. In any event, blood in the stool is only one of many indicators of a developing cancer--and hardly the most definitive. No home colon-cancer test, no matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do It Yourself? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along as lightly as a stone across a pond. Next he flowed into the goodhearted song "Diz Que Fui Por Ai"; during the instrumental break, he couldn't resist dancing around his stool as his guitarists carried the melody. It was pure enchantment; not just Brazilian music at its best, but art at its finest as well. Melodia's set carried a heavy burden of soul but managed to nonetheless be light on its feet. You never wanted the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...autobiography, she recalls a protest she attended in the '60s in which her colleague Kate Millett set up a toilet stool outside the Colgate-Palmolive building in New York City and covered it with Colgate products...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Protest Leader Dies At Age 83 | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

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