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FASHION PLATES Fine china looks a lot like apparel now that Missoni, Kate Spade and Vera Wang are turning out their own tabletop designs. The latest introductions are Missoni's Carousel collection, above right, featuring splashes of the house's signature zigzag (at Barneys New York). The three patterns in Spade's St. Kitt's line, above left, are meant to be mixed and matched (at bloomingdales.com...
...What can Stoltenberg provide that Bondevik can't? Stability, and the country's first majority government in at least two decades, according to Professor Frank Aarebrot from the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. He argues that minority governments have to "maneuver in a kind of zigzag, slalom manner. The challengers promise a majority government and thus a stable budget situation. That appeals to the electorate." The 46-year-old Labor leader's good looks and convincing style also appeal to voters, particularly women and the young. "Stoltenberg has won all the debates he has taken part...
...commander. He gives TIME a tour of nearby Gon Kha hill, scene of the recent fighting. When the rain stops, it can be reached by a narrow dirt road, which Yawd Serk negotiates in a blue Isuzu pickup truck, with his revolver tucked into the dashboard. Linked by deep, zigzag trenches, Gon Kha's bunkers look down upon a handful of fortified U.W.S.A. positions, the closest about 500 meters away. Around 800 U.W.S.A. soldiers charged up Gon Kha's steep, unforested flanks, sometimes in broad daylight?a suicidal tactic even for the battle-hardened Wa. Yawd Serk claims that some...
...Weiming, 36, followed a zigzag route to his job as senior deputy director of Shanghai's propaganda bureau. A wiry and energetic man, Pan tilled rice and ran a small pesticide plant in the Jinggang mountains of central China during the Cultural Revolution. At 28 he enrolled in Peking University, where he studied Chinese literature and was elected chairman of the student union. Returning to Shanghai after finishing school, Pan joined the city's propaganda department and rose quickly. "Living with peasants for eight years," he reflects, "I saw how poor and backward our country was. The poverty shook...
...ready to answer his call to arms. He often sets up his own tent in the middle of the Bab al Azizia barracks, on the road to the airport. Tank bays are built into the barracks gates, which are further protected by concrete slabs that force drivers to zigzag slowly to the entrance. Inside are more tanks surrounding Gaddafi's Bedouin tent, into which he will often invite guests. "It is more natural here," he explained recently before proudly proclaiming that Libya was pretty close to being a Utopia. Surrounded by modern-day Bedouin creature comforts, including three telephones, five...