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...Clinton was tired of the comparisons to Nixon," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "It was a loser all along, just a delaying tactic, and it was beginning to take its toll on his image...
...blowing," says Endy Bayuni, managing editor of the Jakarta Post newspaper. "Now it is revenge time." It was the very symbols of the country's new wealth that became the targets of last week's rioting: shopping malls were looted and torched, car dealerships were destroyed, the new toll road from the airport was commandeered by lawless mobs who threatened to set fire to cars that did not hand over cash on demand. "I have never done anything like this before," said Sali, a 27-year-old man who had just taken a television from an electronics store in Jakarta...
...night," says Kaplan. "I was sitting in the middle of the yurt, on Turkmen carpets, and they roasted a lamb outside. The vodka is sitting in the middle of the yurt in the middle of the desert." Though Kaplan enjoyed his stay, being the affable guest can take a toll. "You're not sure all the time what you're eating," he says. "You're up late, and the host always wants you to drink far too much. So it gets a little draining...
...reader scurrying for thedictionary both in attempt to reacquaint herselfwith nautical anatomy and with words of ratherstartling specificity, Gaff Topsails is notalways an easy book to read. Although Kavanagh'sintimate knowledge makes for description asaccurate and illuminating as his vocabulary,imbuing this description with creative imaginationdemands a heavy toll in effort. There is a chapterdevoted exclusively to the geological history ofthe Newfoundland coast, pages replicating thedialectical banter of bored men on the open sea,and every other paragraph brings the unmistakablescent of the sea; electric, heavy, changing withthe hours and the wind...
JAKARTA: Charred bodies, still clutching looted televisions. Police firing into crowds of student protesters. The death toll over 200 and rising: This is President Suharto's Indonesia; and no one, even his former allies, seems to want him in charge anymore...