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...biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement has found new resilience in the past year, as demonstrated by the "Otpor" movement...
...minds on this issue. As the last of about six liberals in the United States (and, yes, we're all in the media), I continue to assert that there is no reliable evidence proving that entertainment impels kids to commit violence. If that melancholy proposal were true, violent crime would be rampant in Japan and Hong Kong, where the most violent films are produced (Japan also makes, in great quantities, violent cartoons and gaudily sexy films); yet both places have low juvenile crime rates. One would thus have to argue that American children are more susceptible to violent entertainment - that...
...same Hollywood bigs who will be feting and writing checks to the Democrats all week at the convention in Los Angeles. And Wednesday night, he'll exercise his right to free expression on television - the very medium that he's spent a good part of his career trying to assert creeping government control over...
March for Economic Human Rights (Monday, July 31): Activists from throughout the country will march - permit or not, they say - to demand what they assert are their economic human rights...
...diplomatic front. It should be noted, of course, that this was a game for which Washington hadn't bothered to show up, focusing primarily on the Middle East and the forthcoming election instead. But Putin's campaign contains a message for the next U.S. leadership: Moscow plans to aggressively assert its interests on the global stage, and that will test Washington's geopolitical skills in ways the Clinton administration was mostly spared...