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...ethnic-Albanian villages fall within the demilitarized zone established at the end of the Kosovo conflict, which allows Belgrade to maintain only police units there. The nationalist attacks on Serbian policemen appear to mimic the earlier strategy of the KLA, which used such attacks to goad Belgrade into a brutal response that eventually drew in NATO...
...ever seen. He's got the culture down; it's not phony. But sometimes his racial program was lousy. He's been very timid about appointing blacks to the federal bench. The race initiative, well intentioned as it was, was a dud. I still think welfare reform was unnecessarily brutal. In the end, his racial program came down to a mild defensive stance on affirmative action, the appointment of some high-profile people in the Cabinet and to lower federal jobs, being wonderful in black churches and playing golf with Vernon Jordan. But that was all window dressing, the easy...
...depending on the issue," says a Gore adviser. "There would be wins and losses. Can he put his arm around Trent Lott at a bill-signing ceremony one day, then wag his finger at him the next? Those sorts of temperament changes are not his strong suit." After the brutal business of the past week, temperament is going to be a problem for everyone...
Gore has a powerful instinct for the endgame, as he has shown in many budget battles, in his handling of Bosnia and above all at the end of his losing presidential bid in 1988. It was a brutal race, but he found a way to end it gracefully. More important than winning, Gore said, was "helping my party, serving my country, knowing when to keep fighting and knowing when I've been licked." Some people close to Gore saw in the results last week a popular mandate for his ideas. These were the people counseling Gore to fight...
...Philbert Hong '04, proved essential to the success of the musical as it provided exciting interludes and set the atmosphere of this dramatic tale. Set designer Phillipa Brashear '01 and Lighting Designers Emily Oster '02 and Marcie Ulin '02 worked beautifully together to transform the Agassiz into the brutal prison. The direction of the cast by Sara Heller is also highly commendable. It's not every day that a musical about prison life under a dictatorship with a healthy dash of controversial political and social issues can be turned into something as energizing and captivating as this production of Kiss...