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...heart of a last-ditch peace effort offered by the so-called contact group of the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and Germany. Under their rules, hedging was unacceptable, and the two sides were expected to take the plan or leave it. When the proposal was presented to the Muslim-led Bosnian government and the Serb rebels on July 6, it came with an ultimatum: if they turned it down, they would be punished. The Bosnian government signed on without conditions. But the Serbs, who have never met a peace plan they liked, coolly called the bluff. Foreign ministers...
...tabloid covers also serve as a sort of keystone to the audience for what is happening in the film. My advice would have been to include the tabloid covers with their emblazoned announcements such as "Cop Gives Waitress $2M Tip" throughout more of the film and ditch the awkward narration by Angel...
...Tyson wasn't satisfied with that. Having pressured Puerto Rico to ditch the labeling requirement, the chicken giant struck for more. The Broiler Council began an attempt to craft new regulations even more favorable to the mainland producers. At a Feb. 18 meeting in San Juan attended by Puerto Rican officials and poultry-industry representatives, Tyson momentarily dropped the pretense that the industry group was doing the lobbying. While the Broiler Council had requested the session, records reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted...
...faster," warns Dietz. "Someone who is truly dangerous will see this as an extreme denial of what he's entitled to, his God-given right." That slip of paper, which documents his loss, may be interpreted by the man as a threat to his own life. "In a last-ditch, nihilistic act," says Roland Maiuro, director of Seattle's Harborview Anger Management and Domestic Violence Program, "he will engage in behavior that destroys the source of that threat." And in the expanding range of rage, victims can include children, a woman's lawyer, the judge who issues the restraining order...
...around Lafayette Square in Washington would be torn down to make room for a large federal office building. "She refused to give up," said John Carl Warnecke, an architect who helped develop a plan to preserve the 19th century character of the square. "She said this is 'a last-ditch effort.' A lot of other people have taken credit for Lafayette Square, but she was the true savior." After leaving the White House, she would help save New York City's Grand Central Terminal from the wrecker's ball...