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...Kertes and the people around him profited immensely from his position. In his home town of Backa Palanka on the Croatian border, he made sure his friends got jobs and even doled out gifts to kindergarten children from vast warehouses built in town to house confiscated goods. The pork barrel paid off. In last September's elections, Backa Palanka was one of the only districts in the country to vote Milosevic...
...would have to be China, of course, that first crossed the new President: this was, after all, a rival and maybe a threat, a vast market and a nimble supplier. And yet Bush had made it clear all through his campaign that he rejected what he considered Bill Clinton's tolerance of every Chinese outrage--the spy scandals, the weapons sales, the human rights abuses--so long as nothing got in the way of our growing trade. Bush clearly sided with those who favored a tougher line when he took to calling China a "strategic competitor," not a partner. That...
...scene must have been spectacular. Whether that spectacle is understood as deeply felt or empty depends on later interpretation. "The place was as vast as a small city. There were literally thousands of priests, attendants, temple soldiers and minions," writes historian Paul Johnson. "Dignity was quite lost amid the smoke of the pyres, the bellows of terrified beasts, the sluices of blood, the abattoir stench, the unconcealed and unconcealable machinery of tribal religion inflated by modern wealth to an industrial scale...
After suspending new limits on carbon dioxide emissions, President Bush claimed there's still an "incomplete state of scientific knowledge" on global warming. But one thing's for sure: building a vast national network of dikes to control coastal flooding would be just the thing to kick-start the economy...
...seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across the vast East River to Manhattan, to Broadway. That's a journey that is as great as from the Alleghenies to the Rockies." You made it, Mel. --With reporting by Amy Lennard Goehner/New York