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...Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born. On the other hand, he was a fine painter but never a great one, though some of his decorative work--conspicuously, the fabulous gold-on-leather Peacock Room in Washington's Freer Gallery--rose to greatness as decoration...
...ceiling on the number of troops approved for the U.N. Protection Force, UNPROFOR, from 26,000 to 36,000. Last week in New York City, British, French and Dutch officials sat down with U.N. diplomats to discuss the new plan. It does include assisting peacekeepers in danger and facilitating freer movement on Bosnia's roads. But, says a U.N. official who attended the meetings, they "are not going to blast their way through anything." They can fire back if fired upon, but they must not take sides. A Western diplomat who participated summed up the basic truth: "None of these...
...used to be proud of being a career civil servant; then I became apologetic; now I'm just plain scared. Even though the U.S. has freer elections, less corruption and lower taxes than almost any other country on earth, there are a shocking number of Americans who believe that blowing up a federal building is a blow for freedom. The antigovernment mood of this country has gone...
...also driven home with jarring force last year. Enriching our neighbors is surely a more civilized way of staunching illegal immigration than California's Proposition 187, which in its harshness made even a few supporters squeamish. The case for NAFTA has always focused on the long term: that freer trade would slowly boost prosperity on both sides of the border, notwithstanding acute growing pains; and that by making Mexicans less threatening neighbors, it would eventually mute the raw nativism that is surfacing in California and elsewhere. That case looks at least as strong today as a year...
...search, New York City's Museum of Modern Art named Glenn Lowry its new director. Lowry, 40, is a somewhat surprising choice to head the world's pre-eminent collection of 20th century art; an Islamic art expert, he has curated the Near Eastern treasures of the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries. "He doesn't want to be a curator; he wants to be an administrator," explained MOMA board chairman Agnes Gund. "At the same time, he understands what a curator does...