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...attack on Croatian independence. "The West doesn't plan to play out the financial incentive for change," says Stiglmayer, "and Tudjman knows it." Although candidates calling for greater democracy took nearly 40 percent of the vote, ethnic groups in nearby Bosnia will read Tudjman's overwhelming victory as a deadend for pluralism in the Balkans . "The Muslim leaders can say, 'You see, all the Croats just voted for Tudjman, so we can't allow real democracy or we'll be weak.' The Serb leadership will say the same. Nothing will change...
There are several consequences of this system. One is that only a minute number of assistant and associate professors remain at Harvard in lifetime posts, giving the University a bad reputation among young scholars nationwide. Coming to Harvard to teach as a junior professor is a guaranteed deadend...
...Allison, Jr. '62, dean of the K-School and professor of Public Policy, and Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy, testified in Washington Wednesday on their "think-piece," entitled "Governance of Nuclear Power," in which they noted that commercial nuclear power in the United States "has reached a deadend...
...soldiers fanned out along a deadend track leading to Cerro los Ganchos, a favorite guerrilla observation post. Along the way, they stopped to search deserted farms, with their seed bins full of grain and with little family shrines with holy pictures on their plain walls...
What keeps these excursions along the wild side from being slumming expeditions is Reed's own rapt sympathy for the grifters, freaks and crooks who populate much of his music. Many of his songs are shot through with the kind of deadend romanticism that would stir Bruce Springsteen (who, in fact, appears unbilled and unannounced on Street Hassle, reciting the melancholy introduction to the third vignette). If Lou Reed gives no quarter in his music, neither does he yield to sensationalism or condescension. "You know," he sings in Street Hassle, "some people got no choice/ And they can never...