Word: 50th
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...hard to overstate how remarkable and surprising to most people this war in the name of peace is. On the eve of its 50th birthday, NATO, a defensive alliance founded to protect Western Europe from Soviet invasion, has struck hard at a sovereign state that is not a threat to the allies. Without a specific U.N. Security Council authorization, NATO is intervening in a civil war, a war of secession, to halt the cruelty with which it is being fought--especially by the Serbs. In the process, the allies run the risk that their attacks might increase the level...
...reach a drastic conclusion. I hope against hope that the bombing will stop the murderous rampage and bring the Serbian side back to the negotiating table. But if, as I expect, it does not, then there is only one way for NATO not to be seen on its 50th anniversary as either impotent or complicit in a savage ethnic war. This is to assemble a large international force that will physically occupy Kosovo, make it an international protectorate and stop Serbs from killing or expelling innocent Albanians--and, as important, vice versa...
...Jewish votes in 1997--is already exploiting the issue; last week he slapped her for "siding with the Palestinians against the Israelis." This is, after all, the man who in 1995 had Yasser Arafat ushered out of a city-sponsored party for the U.N.'s 50th anniversary...
...play went on to win both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It catapulted Arthur Miller to the top rank of American playwrights and has made perhaps a firmer dent in our consciousness than any other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with a new Broadway production, it's not just an occasion for theatrical nostalgia but time for a question: Why does this depressing, sometimes overwritten, painfully familiar play still move us in almost every incarnation...
...while Jam'n's meaningless pop and Baltazar's endless scams may appeal to the pre-teen and adolescent crowd, the continued existence of WILD (now in its 50th year) and the success of black-oriented programming on local college radio stations-such as this weekend's "history of hip hop" orgy on WHRB--indicate that there is a Boston market for serious urban music...