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However vehemently Milosevic insists that the whole Serb nation stands accused, this is his trial alone. He is taking a road that has been traveled before in Serb history: he is the victim, the little guy against the world, who will be victorious even--or especially--in defeat. He may be in prison, but he says he is free. "My name is Slobodan with a capital S," he said; slobodan means free in his native language. He declares he was a peacemaker whose only crime was to oppose "the might" of the West...
Four years is a long time to wait for four minutes on Olympic ice, and this was a hard defeat for the 21-year-old Californian, who won silver at Nagano in 1992. Her disappointment and surprise at finding herself with bronze this time was as deep as Hughes' ecstatic shock at having defeated her idol. Puffy-eyed from crying when she skated out to receive her medal, Kwan will now wrestle with the burden of dealing with an Olympic victory that has slipped from her hands not once but twice. "I just wanted to come home with the gold...
...Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...loss came on the heels of a 77-72 defeat at Yale on Friday, and dropped the Crimson (14-12, 7-7) to fifth place in the final Ivy standings...
...legal battlefield on which states are locked in hand-to-hand combat with drug companies. A federal judge last week ruled that Maine could force drugmakers to provide discounts of up to 25% for people with incomes up to three times the poverty level. It was the third such defeat the industry had suffered against such programs in three months. That same day Montana sued 18 drug firms it accuses of illegally inflating prices. Governors say Congress would make their guerrilla campaign a lot easier if it would change the laws that allow pharmaceutical companies to hang on to their...