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...city U.S. tour to promote Zlata's Diary, an account of her family's life in the besieged Bosnian capital. The book has become an international best seller since its initial publication last fall, and when Zlata sits down with Katie Couric, it is immediately clear she has become adept at answering painful questions about her tragically abbreviated girlhood...
...will air strikes or Serb compliance with the ultimatum actually do much to end the war and stop the killing? The Pentagon is dubious that NATO planes can do much damage. In the face of past threats, the Serbs have proved adept at backing down just enough to keep things quiet for a while, then stepping up the fighting again. There is also a fear that the ultimatum and air strikes are a mere facade behind which the U.S. will help pressure Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims into settling the war on terms amounting to a surrender to Serb aggression...
...highly manicured poodle, ((Munito)) was introduced into a circle of ((numbered)) pasteboards. With his teeth Munito picked up the correct cards to solve problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For inquiries in . . . geography, botany and natural history, he selected appropriate alphabet cards. He could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert the dog to the proper selection...
...either Kerrigan or Harding does not skate for the U.S. Olympic team, the alternate is Michelle Kwan, only 13. As gold medalist and TV commentator Dick Button observes, she is already "beautifully put together," and she is equally adept at putting together her life. When her coach, Frank Carroll, advised her to spend another year maturing in the junior division, she waited until he went away for a few days, and successfully applied for senior status by herself. Placing second in the Nationals in Detroit two weeks ago was a triumph. On the ice she shows the kind of bravura...
Giardi is extraordinarily adept at running and faking; often he fakes out the camera and defensive backs at the same time with his smooth moves. His passing can be streaky, however...