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...began rolling through the streets, Knin's Serb leaders placed a last-minute call to the U.N., requesting the evacuation of 32,000 civilians. Then the leaders themselves joined the long line of cars, trucks and buses streaming in the direction of northern Bosnia. Around noon, an enormous Croatian flag, whose red-and-white checkerboards have long served for Serbs as a hated symbol of Croatian rule, was hoisted above Knin's 10th century citadel, once used as a coronation site for medieval kings...
Since the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the final time in 1991, however, things have changed. The days in which we could simply and unilaterally "bomb 'em to hell" when the occasion arose are finished. Regional conflicts call for complicated, multilateral resolutions. And because collective initiative is harder to set in motion, most conflicts are too large in scale by the time action is taken to be conveniently solved by our much-favored hit-and run air -strike. We learned this a little in the Gulf War; the Bosnian conflict has bitterly rubbed...
...year in federal funds for the upkeep of the Lincoln Memorial, with its huge, Zeus-like figure of the dead President by Daniel Chester French? Yet from there to Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial--a focus of intense collective feeling and reverence today, but bitterly denounced by many a flag-wagging conservative as "a black gash of shame"-- there has scarcely been a significant American public sculpture commemorating things Americans care about that hasn't excited fierce opposition, usually in the name of patriotism and values...
...morning of June 2, Milosevic told Frasure that, while his action had nothing to do with the sanctions negotiations, he had acted to "save the national pride of Serbia." According to notes of the meeting, he declared that "taking hostages ... is like shooting someone carrying a white flag." Milosevic said that he had sent his chief of state security to Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold, to tell Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, that they would be arrested-and worse-if every one of the hostages was not freed, healthy and rearmed...
...carries a basic set of old- fashioned, conservative social values -- he is against sending women into combat, and fought against letting gays serve openly in the military. But he is adding specific and fairly centrist views on other hot-button issues. He is basically pro-choice, against the proposed flag-burning amendment and a supporter of Medicare, which helped him care for both his parents in their final years. On affirmative action he makes a nuanced distinction. While he is against programs that give advantages to people who no longer need them, he supports programs that recognize that "racism...