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...read from the prepared script. Ahtisaari went over it in detail, explaining why each demand was not negotiable. "Can we make improvements in the text?" Milosevic asked. "Absolutely not," Ahtisaari shot back. This was NATO's best offer, and not a comma could be changed. Hoping to soften the Finn, Milosevic invited him to dinner. "Let's not have dinner," answered Ahtisaari. Instead, the Serbian leader should go back to his advisers and consult them on accepting NATO's ultimatum...
MARTTI AHTISAARI The Mighty Finn brokers peace in our summertime. Most famous Finn since, um, since...
...Quarterback Matt Rader threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, and tailback Jim Finn--the last player taken in the 1999 NFL Draft--ran for 106 yards and three scores...
...having been stood up once again by the European Union's mediator, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. After three-way talks with U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things are not looking good on the diplomatic front right now," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The indictment doesn't preclude negotiations over military control over Kosovo, although some believe it may make Milosevic more obdurate. But the Americans, the Russians...
Research published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature suggests that the cloned ewe named Dolly could be -- as an observer once joked -- a sheep in lamb's clothing. The three-year-old Finn Dorset ewe, it turns out, may be susceptible to premature aging. Researchers have determined that chromosome tips, known as telomeres, which regulate the lifespan of cells by preventing their genetic code from fraying, are shorter than expected in Dolly. Researchers are not sure whether the "older DNA" is the result of the age of the animal from which Dolly was cloned or the result...