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Milosevic, the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (formerly the Communist Party), used a surge of Serbian nationalism in late 1980s to come to power. Since then he has been the president of Serbia and then of the new Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and the much smaller republic of Montenegro. His popularity has been declining throughout the 1990s, hitting all-time lows last year after the defeat in the Kosovo conflict. He now has the support of only 20 to 25 percent of the population...
...supersonic Concorde must be permanently grounded because of safety concerns, I will miss it [BUSINESS, Aug. 28]. What is on the horizon to take its place? There is no other passenger aircraft to equal the Concorde's elegant union of power and grace. The stylistically repetitive banality of modern passenger aircraft is a disappointment. Almost every Boeing and Airbus looks the same. Come on, Boeing, you have the talent to design something better. With your next aircraft, take our breath away. G. STUART EWY Los Angeles...
Malda has taken the idea of what news was, hacked it open and rebuilt it for the Internet age. Slashdot's secret weapon is the collaborative power of the Web. Malda and the other editors don't write the site's stories. Instead it is Slashdot's readers who send in the news. In effect, Malda has an army of reporters working for him, and as a result, Slashdot often scoops the mainstream media. Case in point: when Netscape decided to give away the source code of its browser, one of the biggest tech stories of 1998, Slashdot was first...
...wasn?t an attack of conscience that prompted Peru's President Alberto Fujimori to step down; it was the very armed forces that had guaranteed his power. The questions that may hold Peru?s fate, however, is why the generals made it clear to Fujimori that he had to go, and what their next move might be. Lima was awash Monday in rumors of coups and conspiracies, and it?s not hard to see why: New of the planned resignation of a strongman who had defied not only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington...
...Peru may ostensibly be a democracy, but the security forces continue to play a major role in politics, and Montesinos had long been viewed as the power behind Fujimori's throne. To understand exactly what has happened over the past week, it would help to know just how the videotape depicting him in what appears to be an act of bribery found its way into the hands of the opposition and onto television - an apparent sting worthy of his own intelligence service's political dirty tricks. Observers will be closely watching Montesinos's movements, because while Fujimori also announced...