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Finally last week the cruelty captured in powerful pictures of dead children and imprisoned adults succeeded in rousing moral outrage. Like it or not, the world looks to the U.S. to lead an international response. In Washington the curious alchemy of press coverage, public opinion and a presidential campaign abruptly transformed the distant saga of suffering into a political question too sharp to ignore: Is it wise for the West -- or is it required of the West -- to intervene with military force in the Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting...
...recent years, with a curious consistency, the scheduled indolence of August has been interrupted by the sound of gunfire -- in Kuwait, in the failed Moscow coup, in half a dozen hot spots. As he is wont to point out, George Bush is the man who receives the midnight phone calls when such crises erupt overseas and who has "the guts" to act. It is August, and there are two dangerous disasters blazing on the horizon. Yet Bush, the foreign policy President, is moving most cautiously to deal with them...
...that, in a nutshell, may explain the curious lack of joy last Thursday evening in the Palau Sant Jordi. The women's all-around should have been an energizing high for rapt spectators. The field of competitors was so deep with talent that on any given day, the gold medal could have hung deservedly on any one of eight necks from four countries. There was enough grace to satisfy balletomanes and enough difficulty to suggest that the laws of gravity ought to be rewritten. Yet there was little of the heartwarming drama that in Olympics past enabled audiences to lose...
...said he might have collected suchinformation in order to respond to questions frommembers of Princeton's board of Trustees, whomight have been curious to see how Princeton'splanned tuition increase compared to those atother institutions. Rudenstine said he has noqualms about having assembled such information...
...People are curious," says Scudder, who serveson the Design School area's "joint council," anegotiating body of elected union members andappointed administrators. For every department,library or area, a joint council meets regularlythroughout the year. In addition, each group ofapproximately 33 union members elects arepresentative to the union as a whole...