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...mystery, he knew that his Behind the Music or E! True Hollywood Story episode could never get top ratings,” said Casillas. “But when I also informed him of the fact that he isn’t a celebrity, he got this look of horror on his face, kicked me in the knee and stormed off. I never saw him again...
...fast-moving historical epics with little of the care for individual characters that the mature Shakespeare later lavished on the prequels, the effect is of a harrowing bleeding away of compassion. As the civil wars spiral out of control, sympathy for solitary victims gives way to a numb horror at the mounting carnage. Which, for anyone doubting the modern-day relevance of these works, is not so far from the reactions of television viewers barraged by blanket media coverage of atrocities in Bosnia or Rwanda...
...then it happened. After the economy roared at a 6% rate of growth for the 12 months ending last June, economic pundits looked on in horror as it all began to cave in right before their eyes, with the economy edging close to zero growth. Imagine being in a speedboat going 60 m.p.h. and suddenly hitting a sandbar. It was a rude awakening. New Economy or not, the business cycle turns out to be alive and well. And hungry...
...former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic been killed in the two-day standoff with Yugoslav authorities that preceded his arrest, the people of Yugoslavia would have never discovered the full extent of the horror and destruction of more than a decade of his rule. The crimes, both those committed against his own people and against others in the name of his people, would fail to receive proper attention in the absence of the principal perpetrator. The opportunity to use Milosevic’s trial as one of the building blocks of democracy in Yugoslavia and ethnic tolerance in the Balkans would...
...reality of decades of rapprochement with the Beijing government. To argue for “trade first, democracy later” is to forget June 4, 1989. At a time when China was opening up its economy to the West with alarming swiftness, the world watched in horror as tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square and the Chinese army murdered peaceful demonstrators. The world was outraged, but after the dust had cleared, trade negotiations quickly resumed. Twelve years after Tiananmen, China has not begun to improve its record on human rights...