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Levy makes this point well and repeatedly. Crisply-uniformed UN troops pass by Bosnians freezing in the mountains and air-drop relief food into an icy river. Some UN officers struggle with the cruelty of this position, but most are unable or unwilling to resist policy defined by distant leaders. Bosnian military leaders, many former intellectuals or white-collar workers, speak with guarded firmness about the fighting, appearing at worst as misplaced men, but mostly seeming deeply and quietly courageous...
...fairness, it must be acknowledged that cosmologists have had very little information to go on, at least until very recently. The distant galaxies that bear witness to the universe's origin, evolution and structure are excruciatingly faint, and it takes every bit of skill observers have to tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very...
Others use the medium as a pickup bar and a place to set up real assignations in the no-tell motels of America. The real cybersex conquistadores employ the networks to seduce distant lovers and keep a kind of score of their ``hits.'' Not everyone who does this is male, by the way. Indeed, recently on America Online, a woman with the handle ``Stolen Kisses'' became the object of many others' fancy after she wrote an article in Penthouse magazine titled ``Confessions of a Cyberslut.'' While it was once the case that women willing to engage in erotic give...
Government should reflect our values. Unfortunately, the federal government too often seems to be a distant conglomeration of faceless bureaucrats who can't understand the daily struggles that American families face. That is why many people are willing to buy into a simple defense of the Balanced Budget Amendment. "If our families have to sit around the kitchen table at the end of every month and balance our checkbook and pay our bills, why shouldn't the U.S. Government do the same?" ask proponents...
Finally, around April 1993, Q extended his network all the way to Birmingham. That city was to afford investigators the clearest glimpse into one of Q's distant branches. Following a number of scouting trips to test the local market, an enterprising threesome flew into the city to stay. Two were among Q's suspected Crip affiliates, Horace (``Dink'') Slaughter, 29, brother of Book, and Larry (``Drak'') Neal, 29, both of whom weighed more than 260 lbs. The third was a petite, reddish-haired woman from Long Beach, California, named Renee Stephens. For the team's headquarters, Stephens rented...