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...that a lot of the money that was promised for rebuilding Kosovo at the height of last year's conflict has simply not been delivered." Kouchner and his supporters argue that unless money is plowed into infrastructure and government institutions, such as police, the province will always be in thrall of extremists. But even if it's reluctant to pay up, NATO is unlikely to abandon Kosovo to Milosevic. Still, says Dowell, "it'll be much cheaper to make a substantial investment now rather than simply allowing Kosovo to slide, which will cost the West a lot more...
...knife edge; now it looks more like a non-event. The former dictator flew home Thursday after Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw ended extradition proceedings on torture charges and said Pinochet was free to leave. But the generalissimo will return to a country no longer in his thrall. When he left Chile in September 1998 it was as self-appointed senator-for-life and a self-satisfied former military ruler who had deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago - a capital now ruled, once again, by the very Socialist party Pinochet overthrew...
...British Secret Service agent known as The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is on the trail, and soon in the thrall, of a lovely mankiller (Ashley Judd). This murky mystery steals from Lolita and from many Hitchcock films (notably Vertigo)--but learns nothing from them, nor from its source novel, the complex thriller by Marc Behm about a detective with a daughter fixation, and a young murderess in search of a father figure. Read the excellent book, skip the incoherent movie, and wish its two attractive leads better luck next time. Odds are they can't have worse...
...could not bear it," and receive few arguments from his readers. It was an era in which the word irony described a passing attitude, not a cultural imperative, and celebrity was something pleasant that happened to deserving strivers, not the glue that held everything together, everyone in its thrall...
...inhabitants seem to spurn the traditional, anxious to show the world that they can find a new way to live, built on beauty, style, elegance--and ultimate equality. Have they succeeded? In the answer to that simple question lies the elixir of Paris that places some in its thrall and repels others...