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...administration officials painstakingly parsed different drafts of a document designed to satisfy the Chinese clamor for an apology without actually apologizing, Powell became the Bush team's public face on the issue, reassuring America's jangled nerves and coaxing and cajoling the Chinese forward. And that was a role tailor-made for the administration's most charismatic figure, whose soft-spoken self-confidence kept a media-spurred "hostage" panic...
...easy. The mountainous, heavily forested terrain is tailor-made for insurgency, and some of the trails and networks the Kosovo Liberation Army (k.l.a.) used to transport arms into Kosovo in the late 1990s can be followed the other way. Robertson issued a call for more troops to strengthen the stretched resources of the 42,000 kfor troops currently in Kosovo, but none of the countries deployed, least of all the United States, expressed any enthusiasm about beefing up their presence there. NATO officials say they're "not talking about thousands of troops," and that they're confident someone will pony...
...hope it will be a success," Djelic says of the reform movement in his own country. "But reforming Serbia is different from anything that's been done so far. So the transition plan will be tailor-made to our specific needs." Selling a market economy to Serbs may be tough. After only a few weeks in the job, Djelic is already under pressure from angry state factory workers demanding back pay and higher wages. "The former regime used to print money to pay the workers, and it led to one of the world's highest inflation rates," Djelic says...
...many ways, the AIDS-drugs issue was tailor-made for Castro, a strongman who harbors both an epic hostility to capitalism and a developed pharmaceutical industry. The Cuban leader once revered among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...
...Asked who he'd most like to work with, Rein had a ready reply: Diane Warren. That he named not a singer but a songwriter reflects his respect for the craft. To write songs is to tailor with music, Rein says. Right now, his style is definitely...