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Eskew worked on both of Gore's Senate campaigns, and in 1988, when Gore suffered the first political defeat of his life, he recruited Eskew to write his withdrawal speech--a graceful, humble, witty, healing final note to the brutal presidential campaign that Gore had run. With an eye to the future, Eskew made sure that Gore began making peace with the former rivals he would someday need. Gore lauded Gephardt for his "passion in the service of policy" and Jesse Jackson for teaching him that "we are a richer party and a better nation when we break down barriers...
...also a penalty-laden game. There were 17 penalties called, seven of which came in a particularly brutal second period...
...people start to ask "Who shot Zeljko Raznatovic?" the answers aren't so much who wanted him dead as who didn't. The paramilitary leader known as Arkan, gunned down along with two others Saturday in the lobby of the Belgrade Intercontinental hotel, had a long and brutal criminal history that included time as the leader of the infamous Tiger militia that terrorized civilians in Bosnia and Croatia. So the questions begin: Was the attack some bit of gangland retribution from one of Arkan's many shady associates? Or was the hit ordered by someone in Slobodan Milosevic's government...
...speak the truth having personally experienced it through the maddening ordeal that is recruiting. For the uninitiated out there, recruiting is the brutal, puerile, demeaning process by which seniors jockey for plum positions within investment banks, consulting firms and various other fast-track jobs in the business world. It is also the process by which the realities of the real world come crashing down on our sheltered little heads...
...population. "In the first war Moscow set up 'filtration camps' to ostensibly separate civilians from militants, and there were widespread reports of torture and beatings," says Meier. "Now the Chechen population fears the Russians are planning the same thing all over again." Frustration may prompt Russia to pursue more brutal and indiscriminate measures, which makes it more likely that the Chechen population will become alienated from Russian forces rather than from the guerrillas - in other words, the waters will become hostile less to the fish than to the fishermen. And, as guerrilla wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan have shown, without...