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...Despite his move into opposition, though, Berezovsky is unlikely to find himself in a showdown with the president, to whom he still expresses loyalty. Party politics means comparatively little in Moscow's corridors of power, where the deals that count are often struck far away from the public eye. Hence the dolls within dolls...
...women's tour; at Wimbledon the Australian prodigy Jelena Dokic fought to a semifinal berth only after her father, having stormed the grounds ranting, got himself nabbed by police. The screwiest thing Richard Williams did at the All England Club was to not show up for his daughters' showdown. He couldn't take it; he went for a walk. He returned on Saturday, of course, for the glory...
...keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic, and the Serb leader would happily send in his army to back them up in a showdown with Djukanovic. That would force NATO to either intervene or stand back and watch Belgrade's tanks roll over a freedom-minded republic...
...Friday Montenegro's parliament passed a resolution rejecting Milosevic's constitutional changes. But that sets the scene for a showdown in the fall, when federal elections are due. Participating in the election means Montenegro's acceptance of the principle of rule from Belgrade, and even the idea doing the rounds in NATO circles of Djukanovic himself challenging Milosevic for the Yugoslav presidency is likely to be a non-starter - Belgrade's mooted anti-terrorism law would make the Montenegrin leader liable for arrest if he tried to campaign in Serbia. But rejecting the constitutional changes and pressing on toward independence...
...rest of us will be stuck with the fanfare - after being treated to such sparkling pre-match headlines as "Advantage: Williams" and "Sister Act," the face-off will get even more publicity than the undercard: a showdown between curvaceous second-round flameout Anna Kournikova and a full-length mirror...