Word: commander
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Serb forces hailed the arrival of Russia's 400 peacekeeping troops, officially under U.N. command, as friends and saviors. Crowds plied the Russian troops with plum brandy and waved the three-fingered Serbian salute for the Orthodox trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost -- or church, country and army, as some claim. "When you get in trouble with the Serbs, please turn to us before raising hell," snapped Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly Churkin at the Bonn gathering. "There is nothing that would require strong words or strong actions." NATO countries, partly to help Boris Yeltsin fend off ultranationalists...
Myra Carter caps a long career with a dazzling portrait of a dowager, whom she plays both in full command of her gilded domain and at the breaking point of senile decay. Marian Seldes, who won a 1967 Tony Award in Albee's A Delicate Balance, has never been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks...
...authentic leftism. Phony, obfuscatory, elitist French theory became the ticket to ride for an amoral, overpaid, overpraised coterie that is incestuously interconnected from Berkeley and Duke to Princeton and Harvard. These days, its pashas pretend to be doing "cultural studies," an amateurish mishmash of this and that, without scholarly command of any area...
...graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During the seventies McElwee was at MIT, which he says had "attempted to resurrect its image as an extension of the military industrial complex...by choosing to focus on the mechanical arts. They really urged us to take complete command and authorship of our own work...to actually become the cinematographer, become the sound technician, do the editing yourself." This sort of independence allows McElwee to record the daily events of his family and friends as a one-man team...
...shootings and death threats are part of the job description in Somalia, where six aid workers have been slain. Although the Clinton Administration denies it, there is a perception that the U.S. has chosen to abandon Somalia rather than contend with the dangers. Turkish General Cevik Bir, leaving the command of the U.N. operation there last week, leaked an "eyes only" letter to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, indirectly chastising the Americans and Europeans for "mission erosion." Said Bir: "The contributing nations must be committed enough to accept the violence and loss of life associated with war, and then...