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That rapprochement may have been motivated primarily by Madeleine Albright's attempt to put the squeeze on Milosevic, and even then KLA hard-liners played hard to get by refusing to sign the peace deal for three weeks...
This attitude is the cause of the more troubling tendency for the University indiscriminately to tell depressed students to "take time off" and that they are not fit as students. "They see time off as the fix to everything," says a junior who has survived an attempt. "Time off" deprives depressed students both of the already tenuous support system of friends and services that they have here and the incentive to admit to personal problems...
...Seton is expected to address the council tonight, where he will attempt to rein the council in with a call for a stronger focus on student services...
Thus Kevorkian, as he said later, "invited himself" to his own trial. It was his latest--and with Friday's guilty verdict, perhaps his last--attempt to provoke and expand the public discussion of euthanasia. "I had to raise the issue," Kevorkian told the jury. And he was unapologetic for using TV to get his point across: "This forum can get it to a stage quickly...
There was one last-ditch attempt to stave off this madness, one that was frustrating to the participants but emblematic of the problems of dealing with Milosevic. Last week Holbrooke, who had talked Milosevic into two major deals before, zipped into Belgrade with a "final, final" warning. In an ornate reception room with a Rembrandt on the wall, Holbrooke settled into the sofa on which he had sat for hours on other diplomatic shuttles, his back to a window that looked out onto a garden. Milosevic settled into his usual armchair...