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...happens. Fighting last week threatened to undermine those rebels who back the deal. And the delay has given Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic a chance to deploy 4,500 additional soldiers, about 60 tanks and other heavy armor around Kosovo. In Washington there was worry that the troops looked like a cocked fist. As if peace needed another bad omen, the talks are set to restart on March 15--the infamous ides of March. Despite that, hope remains that the next two weeks will give Surroi and his fellow delegates the chance they need to praise peace in Kosovo...
...suspicious of the conventional wisdom. If you feel like it needs to be challenged, put on your armor...
...calm down and consult a dictionary, Williams accepted Howard's resignation." Buckwheat paused. "In a city like Washington this could start an epidemic of oversensitivity. You could have an explosion the next time somebody says there's a 'nip in the air' or a 'chink in your armor.' We've got to inject some common sense into this STUPID fuss...
...believes that Massachusetts's teacher testing program is suspect because of "the secrecy surrounding its methodology." That, and the fact that state officials have had the nerve to call dumb teachers "dumb." Fittingly, the staff seems to think that the solution to this is a kindly bureaucrat in shining armor who should come from the federal government, known, of course, for its humanness, its sunshine and its clarity...
...Echo, Canens and Syrinx, among other nymphs with literary pedigrees. But who is the old woman, and what is she doing? If her outstretched palms are protecting the girl, she's facing the wrong direction--away from Pan. Who is the woman in the green dress and the gold armor? Virtue? Chastity? What are the bound music manuscripts doing on the ground, and the overturned lapis lazuli pitcher? And why are the lemons on the tree so big and out of scale...