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...most famous lefty beard is Fidel Castro's moth-eaten, air-conditioned number, a brilliant and durable trademark that has never been sufficiently backed up by the man's hormones. Rule One: A wispy, unpersuasive beard, through which the facial skin is clearly visible, tends to subvert a "strongman's" machismo...
...there was nothing effete about Mueller, a decorated Marine, who handled cases ranging from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. He smashed through bureaucratic obstacles so enthusiastically that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization...
...Irish Republican Army refused to disarm. Unless rescinded within six weeks, Trimble's resignation could cause the collapse of Northern Ireland's complex power-sharing arrangements. London and Dublin hope a new reform package will sway the I.R.A. to lay down its arms. THE NETHERLANDS Judgment Day Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was delivered to the U.N. tribunal in the Hague for prosecution as a war criminal. His extradition coincided with the release of $1.28 billion to Yugoslavia. International donors said that the loans and grants were intended to help the Yugoslav Federation rebuild its economy. Milosevic, the first former...
...Djindjic had one last ace to play. After the court handed down its ruling, Djindjic summoned his cabinet and informed them he was about to lance Milosevic with one of the strongman's own knives: a measure, devised by Milosevic during the early days of the former Yugoslavia's dissolution, that allows Serbia's cabinet to ignore any federal law it doesn't like. Without telling anyone, including Kostunica, the cabinet effectively refused to comply with the high court's ruling. Within three hours Milosevic was on his way to the Hague. The transfer blindsided Kostunica, the modest constitutional lawyer...
...Today's Serb leaders, however, aren't the only politicians who are a little uncomfortable with the proceedings unfolding in The Hague. A number of Western leaders had to deal with the strongman over the past decade, reaching deals and accommodations in efforts to stabilize the increasingly imperfect world of the simmering Balkans. Richard Holbrooke, Lords Carrington and Owen and other senior Western officials spent hours behind closed doors on Milosevic's sofa without even the presence of translators (the strongman had been a banker before he became president, and prides himself on his command of English). His performance...