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...rare bipartisan repudiation of a President's foreign policy, the Senate voted 69 to 29 to end American participation in the U.N. embargo on arms to Bosnia. The rationale: to help the Muslim government fend off the savage onslaughts of the Bosnian Serbs. President Clinton vowed to veto the measure if it also passes the House; he claims that lifting the embargo would, among other things, increase the chances of injecting U.S. troops into the conflict. In the short term, however, the bill's impact is more likely to be political: it's qualified in such a way that...
Both versions are true; the second follows from the first. The travel industry cherishes Piety 1. The traveler drifts through the world trying to fend off the truth of Piety 2, which declares itself in spasms of denied disappointment. At worst, a nostalgic heartache goes to work, the travel snob's regret, grandchild of an Evelyn Waugh-Somerset Maugham steamship elitism. Lucretius wrote: "Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before." A new metaphysic of distances and destinations has taken over the world...
...will break out in parking lots as thousands of motorists compete for 2,000 slots. So many hikers will suffer from exhaustion and other heat-related problems that park rangers will be forced to practice triage, leaving the least seriously affected vacationers at the bottom of the canyon to fend for themselves. Says a harassed park official: "We are being loved nearly to death...
Professors with teenage children say times have changed over the last ten years. While they were left to fend for themselves and find a way to balance academic work and family responsibilities on their own, they say they have noticed increasing University support for working mothers and acceptance of faculty members with outside responsibilities...
...President? One idea floating around the Dole camp is to place Colin Powell on the ticket. Another is to offer Powell, who may be unwilling to settle for the No. 2 job, both the vice presidency and the post of Secretary of State. But that will do little to fend off other G.O.P. hopefuls. Late last week popular Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson formed an exploratory committee for a presidential run. And he could barely contain his excitement...