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...late 1980s to come to power. Since then he has been the president of Serbia and then of the new Yugoslavia, which consists of Serbia and the much smaller republic of Montenegro. His popularity has been declining throughout the 1990s, hitting all-time lows last year after the defeat in the Kosovo conflict. He now has the support of only 20 to 25 percent of the population...
Istvan Zollei was spectacular in defeat. The sophomore driver scored five goals in Harvard's losing effort...
...Quakers (2-2, 0-1 Ivy) finished second to the Crimson (2-1, 1-0) in the Ivy League standings in 1999, their only defeat coming in a 2-1 overtime loss to Harvard...
...from our lives--to the ICU and the funeral home--both fairly new institutions if you consider how long people have been dying. Dislodged by modernity, dying became a taboo, slightly gross subject for polite conversation. Physicians and the families of their patients began to see death as a defeat, not an inevitable culmination. "We need education," says Dr. Kerry Cranmer of the American Medical Directors Association. "Instead surgeons get together when a patient dies to find out who screwed...
...long notes and pretty choruses; death, physical or emotional, is the fact of life. So, on her new CD, Red Dirt Girl (Nonesuch), a seemingly simple declaration of love--"Nobody loves you like I do"--has the twist of a curse or a threat. Or a declaration of defeat: "I love ya like a user needs a drug." Or a grudging tribute to the man who left a scar: "I will always think of you [because]/ You made me believe in tragedy." Yet if the singer's spirit can sound crushed, the listener's spirit soars because nothing...