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...foreshadowed the real-life breakups just over the horizon. After losing two guitarists, a drummer and a record label in the past two years, there truly is nothing left for the Foos to lose. The changes seem to have done Grohl some good. The Foo Fighters are finally shaking free of whatever expectations their pasts have heaped upon them and just concentrating on making beautiful and devastatingly catchy music they can finally call their...
Last year, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) served alcohol to a prospective student during campus preview week. MIT placed it on alcohol-free probation. This September, the fraternity allegedly served alcohol to an underage Wellesley College student who eventually required hospitalization. MIT suspended the fraternity, effectively banning it from participating in school events...
...well, more paternalistic. An Army that would take me off the bus with nothing but the clothes on my back, the tar in my lungs and the spare tire around my middle. Take me, mold me, whip me into shape, and, best of all, outfit me with lots of free stuff, everything in tough Army olive and built to last. Yet here was a list, in my "Guide For New Soldiers," of quite a bit I'd need to bring. Among them: Soap and soap case. Toothpaste. Dental floss. Two locks. Two towels and washcloths. I bought those at Bloomingdales...
Finally, some bad news for Slobodan Milosevic that's good news for the Serbs. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced Wednesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions against Yugoslavia if the country holds free and fair elections - even if they result in a Milosevic victory. That's a retreat from the more extreme U.S. position that had insisted sanctions would remain in place until Milosevic is ousted - through elections or not - and brings Washington more into line with the thinking of European NATO members and the Serbian opposition. "Most important," says TIME Washington correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, "the policy shift makes...
...blanket isolation of Serbia was only ever going to freeze the situation Iraq-style and actually consolidate Milosevic's grip on power," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The new approach gives the opposition much greater leverage - by dangling an end to sanctions - to force a free and fair election. And if the opposition doesn't participate in an election, it'll be a signal that the international community shouldn?t take the poll seriously and shouldn't lift sanctions." Even then, Milosevic isn't simply likely to roll over and give up, says Anastasijevic...