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Clinton had heard this argument before. On Nov. 22, the day after the Dayton talks ended, the U.S. President had met with his advisers in the White House to assess the agreement. With his characteristic verve, Holbrooke had urged that Karadzic and Mladic be arrested and tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. But the rules of engagement specified that peacekeepers could arrest suspects only if they "happened" upon them. It was an ambiguity that allowed Karadzic to drive unmolested through several NATO checkpoints after Dayton...
...give us myths; to supervise everyday chaos, we need the law, especially in the borderland of lies. Last week the law did its work: a jury vindicated Pagones. It found that Sharpton and the others were guilty of defaming him. The jurors then withdrew to consider how much to assess in damages...
...want to go to the home plate with the idea that I need to hit a home run. I just want to relax and use all the field. When I do that, I know I can hit a home run at any moment." But when asked last week to assess his own chances of surpassing 61 homers for the record, the Cubbie, however, showed that his newfound maturity as a player does not always translate to humility off the field. "Why not 70?" he retorted. "You never know what can happen in this game...
...somehow failed to assess the ways that feminism has changed the intellectual, legal and political landscape since the late 1960s. Instead you assembled a grab bag of popular-culture effusions that, taken together, form a ghastly caricature that only antifeminists would recognize. TIME also managed to miss the fact that many men call themselves feminists. We're not the wishy-washy cliches of popular culture, either. We simply respect women, oppose attempts to keep them relegated to second-class status and join with women in the cause of equal rights. RICHARD B. BERNSTEIN New York City...
...Sunbeam. The appliance maker lost $44.6 million in the first quarter, and may post another loss this quarter. Analysts who thought the company would earn $2 a share in 1999 put the figure today just north of $1. Sunbeam suffers from an inventory glut that will take months to assess and longer to fix. It appears Dunlap had been "stuffing the channel," persuading retailers through discounts to buy more gas grills than they would normally need. This practice helped swell Sunbeam earnings in 1997 but led to this year's crash. Even Dunlap's huge success at Scott Paper...