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...Washington needed a theme song for its Kosovo policy, the Beach Boys? "Wouldn?t It Be Nice" might be a strong contender. When Moscow stole a march on NATO last Saturday by seizing Pristina?s airport, it was simply the latest indicator that U.S. strategy in Kosovo has been premised on an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking. The result may have been not only to underestimate the complexity of the Balkans, but also to usher in an unpredictable and dangerous new period in international relations. "This whole thing hasn?t been well thought through," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...search of a juicy beach book that you need not be embarrassed to be seen with at the most exclusive resort? Get your hands on City of Light, a full-to-the-brim first novel. Set in turn-of-the-century Buffalo, N.Y.--a city that's being electrified, literally, by the new turbines at Niagara Falls--the book is part mystery and part historical melodrama, fluently mixing fact and fiction, with the sort of Victorian plot devices that guarantee a straight-through, sleepless read. The novel is no Ragtime, but it's close--an operatic potboiler, fat with romance...
There are two especially significant advantages to these properties. First, the land is back about a mile from the ocean safe from beach erosion and hurricane destruction. Second, these parcels are only a five-minute drive from two ocean beaches. Owners of these parcels become members of an association owning a four-acre parcel on a barrier beach, with 100-footfrontage on a sandy ocean beach, a membership which assures private access to an ocean beach, in perpetuity...
There is a second beach, also a five-minute drive (or bicycle ride) away; this is 1.5 miles long, with only one house on its entire length the beach to stay in its present state forever; no pizza stands, no boardwalks, no bathhouses, no "nuthin." Just nature...
...Keller says, "Bowen's style didn't workvery well at Harvard--Rudenstine landed onNormandy beach and he didn't know what...