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Most experts, and some advisers close to Tudjman, concede that the two leaders did, in fact, reach such an understanding four years ago. But Tudjman's priorities are now said to have changed, and he seems to be bending over backward to assure the Muslims that his interests no longer conflict with theirs. Last week, for example, Tudjman turned down an invitation from Boris Yeltsin to meet with him and Milosevic for a peace conference. Tudjman refused to go because Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic was not invited...
...began at Harvard and at the Fogg, he found things in fine and fresh early bloom," Rudenstine aid. "By the time he left, he had brought them to full flower. We shall miss him: for himself, and also for the way that he allows us--through him--to reach backward in time, touching the very origins of our history in the serious study and collection of art, and in a serious effort to understand and respond imaginatively to art at Harvard...
...spent months coaxing him to use. (Horrified at the recent photo ops, she vowed to buy him some decent jogging shorts for his birthday.) Now he's as religious about his workout as his wife, spending 30 minutes on the machine three or four times a week. Because pulling backward is one motion his disabled right arm can make, Dole bought a rowing machine last year to improve his upper-body strength...
...them since the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Several years ago, for example, Breslin stopped at a drugstore near her home in Berkeley. The tight turnstiles at the entrance made access difficult, the checkout aisles were too narrow for her wheelchair, and Breslin had to wheel backward against the flow of other shoppers after she paid her bill. On a recent visit, she found that the store, now run by a different retailer, was much easier to deal with. There were no turnstiles to negotiate, and a wide checkout counter had been installed. "Without the ADA," Breslin said...
Later, at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Berkeley, Breslin had to wheel backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...