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...return to negotiations. But no one believes Milosevic will simply sign on to the agreement that the Kosovars have accepted. No, there would have to be new conditions about the terms of autonomy for Kosovo and how the peace would be kept. Any changes made at Milosevic's behest would predictably give the Kosovars furious fits. And if Kosovo has turned into a killing field, as some aid agencies last week were insisting it has, then stability may be a 10- or 15-year project...
...black in a small Southern town could come to the same moral conclusion, the same definition of justice. In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were declared not guilty by an all-white jury in less time than it takes to watch a movie. A month later, at the behest of a journalist who paid for the story, Milam felt enough public approbation to confess to the murder with impunity...
...Board of Education voted on June 22 tolower the minimum passing score because the testwas untried. But ten days later, at the behest ofthen-acting Governor Cellucci, the Boardreconvened and voted to raise the cut-off point,prompting the resignation of Interim CommissionerFrank Haydu...
DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...
...role of faculty-student interaction occurs,de facto, at 20 Rear Garden St. Solutions will emerge when undergraduates take certain realities about Faculty existence into consideration and the Faculty accepts certain responsibilities towards undergraduates more directly. Until this meeting of the minds occurs, whether autonomously or at the behest of University Hall, I can only say that there are and will be, sadly, "no plans to rework the system". RISHI GANTI Feb. 11, 1999 The author is an advisor in the Department of Economics, a resident tutor in economics at Lowell House, and Head Teaching Fellow of Economics 1423, "Capital...