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...slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been a stronghold for critics of Karadzic's. While some determined Serbs cling to their outposts in Sarajevo, all leading participants in the power scramble seem likely to reject the fanatic nationalism of Karadzic and Mladic and to opt for at least temporary cooperation with the Implementation Force of NATO and its associates...
...Mitterrand era over, France faces critical challenges. Will it be able to play a leading role in a more united Europe, or will it end the century where it began--overshadowed by a strong, united Germany? Will it continue to modernize its economy, or will it cling to a large, state-protected sector as a source of jobs and social stability? Will the French be able to preserve their culture and national identity in the face of the continuing encroachment by the Anglo-Saxons and a rising immigrant population...
Indeed, while most people cling to the notion that evolution works its magic over millions of years, scientists are realizing that biological change often occurs in sudden fits and starts. And none of those fitful starts was more dramatic, more productive or more mysterious than the one that occurred shortly after Erwin's wormlike creature slithered through the primordial seas. All around the world, in layers of rock just slightly younger than that Erwin discovered, scientists have found the mineralized remains of organisms that represent the emergence of nearly every major branch in the zoological tree. Among them: bristle worms...
...sure that many of you may think that we're heartless and lack compassion. But this reduction will hurt us more than it hurts you. Now, you'll have to adopt the Protestant work ethic that we cling to. This work ethic can help you rise to the top quickly even if you have no other moral sensibilities--just ask Michael Milken or Neil Bush...
Fields said the terrible connotations of such metaphors cling to the images they describe "like the smell of skunk...