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They said Balkan enmities were too deeply ingrained, Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was too ruthless, and the Serbs were too fiercely attached to Kosovo to back down.
The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.
Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.
Boris Berezovsky, reports the paper, one of Russia's richest and most ruthless businessmen and a former Yeltsin financial backer, has emerged as one of Yeltsin and Kiriyenko's biggest obstacles (Kiriyenko is also opposed by the Communists).
Targets Gates," declared the Washington Post 's front-page headline: "Government Portrays Microsoft Chairman as Cagey, Ruthless."