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...appearances offer any clue, he will claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He will force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony from a loudspeaker. He will look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Milosevic Get His? | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...clue, he'll claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He'll force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony into his face from a loudspeaker. He'll look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Day In Court | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...market. But it is still poorer than the other two major ethnic groups, Chinese and Indians, and tops the list of the government's carefully compiled stats on divorce rates and drug addiction. The gap in society might be larger than people realize?and could yawn even wider if the Malay community as a whole is blamed for its extremists. "This will be a test of the strength of the fabric of our society," is the stark assessment of Singapore's National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan. The 13 men might have been nabbed before they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore Sleepers | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...quarter-century division of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has been the biggest thorn in a long, contentious Greek-Turkish relationship, but for the rest of the world it has become mostly a yawn. There has been little threat of war and, rightly or wrongly, 30,000 Turkish forces have remained on the island since the 1974 invasion to keep it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-to-Face-to-Face in the Aegean | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...blame that night on the alcohol. One can write off that evening as a youthful dalliance. One can synchronize a yawn to avoid her sidewalk eye-contact (broad daylight—ho, ho). But just as Lady MacBeth, even with all of Neptune’s seas, could not wash Banquo’s blood from off her ensanguined mitts, or whatever, so too is it impossible to delete the fargin’ Snood icon which sits blithely in the Windows toolbar—a constant reminder that I should be more careful about to whom I give access...

Author: By Couper Samuelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: System Tainted by Download | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

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