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With the peace talks in Geneva flickering on the brink of collapse, however, such hopes appear forlorn, and for the moment the beleaguered citizens of Mostar's mainly Muslim eastern quarter are surviving day to day on whatever aid can be negotiated past the city's Croat besiegers. Last week Muslim civilians released U.N. troops they had held for more than a week as a shield against Croat shelling, making a resumption of aid possible. But unless peace comes soon, U.N. aid can only postpone the death of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most beautiful and historic cities...
...decent younger brother (William Sage) search for their father, "the radical shortstop," who played for the Dodgers in the '50s and reputedly bombed the Pentagon in the '60s. Fugitive and busted on Long Island, the brothers fall in with the Hartley stock company of cagey women and forlorn men. To their deadpan surprise, the brothers find that they are needed. Or at least tolerated. Tolerated will...
Those hopes came to a shocking halt on that chilly March night in Bright. The Crimson continued to skate, like forlorn lovers, on Bright's empty ice for two more weeks, hoping desperately that the NCAA tournament committee still had the Christmas spirit. But the boys who dole out the tournament bids (including BU's Jack Parker) had about as much St. Nick in themselves as Michael Milken...
This stunning reversal by Major left his government's economic policy and British politics in turmoil. He rejected all calls for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, to resign, and even among the government's critics there was a forlorn sense that the crisis had been beyond the ability of anyone in Britain to control. "It wouldn't matter if you put King Kong in the Treasury," complained Tory M.P. and Euro-skeptic Sir Teddy Taylor. "The ^ Germans control our economy...
...years to go before his own re-election challenge, he outtoughed legislators who ultimately cringed at possible voter reaction against them this November. "For the first time in my 10 years here, I was embarrassed to be a member of the legislature," admitted Republican senator Frank Hill. Lamented a forlorn Democratic assemblyman: "We might as well have painted targets on our foreheads...