Word: ruling
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...Males have not, as a rule, joined Kingsolver's fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: They are seldom the central figures in the author?s world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying...
...That four-point lead Bush took to St. Louis had to be taken back, and Gore knew it. He came out in full-on people mode, tossing the audience a "how are you all" on the way in and breaking the don't-ask-the-questioner-questions-rule with a Clintonesque "what grade do you teach?" (He actually defused the breach rather charmingly, reading the guy's lips and repeating "high school" like a scamp...
...agency switched its allegiance to Vojislav Kostunica, the unassuming constitutional lawyer whose election Milosevic was trying to steal. Riot police doffed their helmets and threw down plastic shields to join the insurrectionist carnival. Army troops sat quietly in their barracks. By nightfall, Milosevic had nothing left to sustain his rule...
...policies in the Balkans and his refusal to cooperate with the U.N.'s war-crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "but he is not an ethnic killer. He is not a former communist, and he believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such as the Stability Pact--which binds members to cooperation and nonaggression--all of which would impel him to blunt his nationalist impulses. Says...
...past decade, he remains a passionate advocate of the rights of the Serb minorities in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. The latter territory?s ethnic-Albanian leadership may well regard Kostunica?s election as a setback, since there was no way the international community would force them to accept rule from Belgrade while Milosevic was in power, but now that he?s out they?re more likely to follow the U.N. Security Council resolution on the territory which recognizes Yugoslavian sovereignty over an autonomous Kosovo. The U.N. administration is now expected to give Belgrade more say over the running...