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...local Serb commander in Bosnia responded that such reports were "wrong and malicious," and offered safe passage out of the region for the thousands of refugees, many of them camped in the open. But amateur-radio broadcasters continued to report heavy artillery fire falling on dozens of blazing hamlets. One Bosnian army officer in Cerska appealed for international help at least to "save 2,500 wounded, if nobody cares about the genocide of 52,000 people in this area...
Have the presence of Harvard's cultural elite made a mark among Leverett's amateur jocks...
...convention, the Glee Club was chosen to perform one of the 45 minute-long feature concerts, the only amateur group to receive that honor...
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN'S "DISCOVERY" 120 YEARS ago of mythic Troy has always gone into the close-but-no-cigar category. Excavating on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so outsize a legend...
...versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should be enough for most amateur gun lovers, but not for the black-market professionals who have been buying weapons by the dozens and smuggling them into such crime-ridden cities as Washington, Baltimore, New York and Boston. As many as a quarter of New York City's handguns can be traced back to Virginia...