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...sense, the millennium is Bill Clinton's larger theater; for him there is a balm in chiliad. World War II, of course, was no illusion. The millennium is a sort of hallucination--the calendar's neverland. That's all right; Bill Clinton is a magnificent illusionist...
...fact is that not even a barrelful of historical balm can ease the ache of one of the most spectacularly boring presidential campaigns in history. But it may help to remember that while we celebrate our system of government in the abstract, we almost never seem to celebrate it in the concrete. Our campaigns, like wine and cheese, need time...
...consultation and cooperative action between Russia and the alliance, including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance, he may not be offering enough balm. "Russia is very suspicious of NATO," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "It believes correctly that NATO was created as a military alliance to oppose it. That is why the nervous countries in Eastern Europe want to join. The NATO expansion might possibly work with less opposition from Russia...
...rights investigator, "is if those responsible for the killings are punished." Deputy prosecutor Blewitt says at the Hague, "People explain this war as revenge for atrocities done in the past that were never punished. We have got to stop that cycle." The countrymen of the perpetrators also need the balm of justice. "The only way we Serbs can escape collective guilt," says Human Rights Watch's Sonja Bisierka, "is to determine who individually is guilty, who personally was responsible, so not all Serbs are condemned alike...
...fence surrounding the site. For Americans far from Oklahoma, the hole blown out of our sense of safety and stability last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance - for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured - the balm of time hardly seems medicine enough. At heart many Oklahomans are struggling, both privately and publicly, with what it means to be a victim and what it means to survive. Whose names belong on the yet-to-be-designed memorial? "Clearly you can identify the 168 people who died," says...