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...Neck X-rays, negative. Head X-rays, negative. Caroline is blubbering throughout, but a trouper. She's coherent, wiggling her toes upon command (everyone commands it: parents, doctors, nurses). She says, many times, "I want to go home." We try to reassure her, but what...
...increasingly imperfect world of the simmering Balkans. Richard Holbrooke, Lords Carrington and Owen and other senior Western officials spent hours behind closed doors on Milosevic's sofa without even the presence of translators (the strongman had been a banker before he became president, and prides himself on his command of English). His performance on Tuesday suggests he plans to do his best to turn his trial into a political tribunal of his nemeses, and he'll almost certainly do his utmost to embarrass the Western powers who at different points in the '90s treated him variously as the guarantor...
...slept there) to meet with Levy's parents and their attorney, Billy Martin (yep, he represented Monica Lewinsky's mother). The meeting lasted about 20 minutes and did not include Dr. Robert Levy. Dazed during an earlier meeting with the D.C. Police and a tour of its "Synchronized Operations Command Center," where tips are processed, the doctor couldn't face the Congressman who had called his daughter a "good friend," then had gone silent about her disappearance. Condit had never told the parents he had received repeated calls from Chandra in late April, just before she went missing from...
...slept there) to meet with Levy's parents and their attorney, Billy Martin (yep, he represented Monica Lewinsky's mother). The meeting lasted about 20 minutes and did not include Dr. Robert Levy. Dazed during an earlier meeting with the D.C. Police and a tour of its "Synchronized Operations Command Center," where tips are processed, the doctor couldn't face the Congressman who had called his daughter a "good friend," then had gone silent about her disappearance. Condit had never told the parents he had received repeated calls from Chandra in late April, just before she went missing from...
...allies feel that America often acts like a selfish child. Americans never gave due credit to the Russians, British and others without whom the Allies could never have won two World Wars, they say. Now America is reluctant to put its soldiers under any other nation’s command, in NATO or in the UN—though of course the U.S. is quick to demand control of other nations’ forces...