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...annual goat roasts, the Dunster Feud game shows, the off-the-wall formals...while these House Committee events are all sufficiently fun and wacky, they don't define What Dunster House Means...
ANYTIME IT SEEMS THAT THE MESS IN BOSNIA CANnot get any more complex, or deadly, it promptly does. Now food is being used as a weapon -- by Serbs and Croatians against Muslims, and by Muslims against themselves. And its use has started an internal feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence...
...firms face no immediate danger; federal law still prohibits phone companies from owning cable systems in their home market. The Southwestern deal, however, could set the stage for a Baby Bell in one region to raid a sibling's home market. If so, it would be an unprecedented family feud...
Impulsive and generous to a fault with relatives and friends, Mobutu must contend with their incessant demands for money and favors. One major distraction has been a feud between children of his late first wife Marie- Antoinette and those of his second, Bobi Ladawa. Another has been rivalry between Bobi Ladawa and her identical twin, a widow whom Mobutu took as a mistress some years ago and with whom he promptly had several children. Though such behavior has roots in African tradition, it has led to raucous family turmoil that represents a significant drain on the time Mobutu devotes...
...future of personal-computer software. Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2. When PS/2 and its operating system, OS/2, failed to catch on, a feud erupted over how the two companies would upgrade the system. Although they publicly patched things up, the partnership was tattered. IBM developed its own version of OS/2, which has so far failed to capture the industry's imagination. Microsoft's competing version, dubbed New Technology, or NT, will debut this spring...