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This is the second time former leader of Britain's Liberal Democratic Party leader Paddy Ashdown has come face-to-face with Milosevic. The last time was in Belgrade in 1998, when Ashdown said he warned the then-president that he'd end up in The Hague if he didn't stop using "excessive and outrageous" force against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. "I warned you that if you took those steps and went on doing this, you would end up in this court. And here you are," Ashdown told Milosevic from the witness stand...
Looking squarely at the former president, Ashdown recounted their meeting six months before NATO's 1999 bombing campaign began. "I said to you in specific terms that if you went on acting in this fashion you would make it inevitable that the international community would have to act, and in the end, they did have to act." The whole purpose of the meeting, said Ashdown, was to warn Milosevic that he had seen for himself what was going on, that from that moment on Milosevic couldn't deny the actions if they continued, and to persuade the former leader...
...Ashdown Manor served as a residence hall for an eclectic group of British university students: Sarah Tudor, a wistful teacher-in-training prone to occasional lapses in consciousness; Terry Worth, soon to be the bohemian film critic of his generation; Robert, one of Terry's closest friends; Gregory Dudden, a cold-hearted, egocentric medical student; and Veronica, the militant lesbian whose dreams of work in the theater always remained unfulfilled. Sarah had only recently broken up with Gregory when she met both Robert and Veronica. Veronica had quickly aroused in her a new passion, forcing Sarah to make it clear...
...Ashdown is no longer being used by the university. Dr. G.K. Dudden--as Gregory is now known--has instead acquired the hall and converted it into a clinic for the study of sleep disorders. Having never met Terry during their college days, Dudden doesn't find it at all odd that the now well-respected film critic has agreed to visit the clinic after sitting through a 10-day film marathon without falling asleep once. In fact, it is Dudden's distantly-familiar female colleague, Dr. Madison, who makes the connection that both men once lived in Ashdown, the first...
...while questions of Kinnock's judgement stemmed form past political blunders, Clinton's come from largely unsubstantiated allegations about improper personal behavior. (The British aren't as puritan as we are. When it came out last month that Paddy Ashdown, the liberal Democratic leader, had committed adultery, his popularity ratings actually swelled...