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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Albright met with the German, French, British and Italian foreign ministers in New York City last week to plot how each country might exploit its ties with dissident elements in Serbia. She asked Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearing Down Milosevic | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Jenny E. Heller'01, a philosophy and French concentrator in Lowell House, is working this summer for the Los Angeles Times in Paris...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: City of Contradictions | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...city will continue to thrive on its unique paradox--a purely Parisian blend that with its mystery attracts foreign observation but, as the French would have it, repeals foreigners from getting too close or understanding too much...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: City of Contradictions | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

Those who know the French say they will never abandon their lifestyle--they are partial to their wines, their designers and their inalienable right to a certain of level arrogance derived from their position as the leading experts on how to live the good life. Nor will they relinquish their dreams of social equality--a political socialism in name although less so in spirit...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: City of Contradictions | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...great big suburb dotted with strip malls and fast food chains--the rapidly evolving face of our country. Even those landmarks of luxury, Malibu, Santa Monica and Hollywood, are merely high class shopping centers with franchises that cater to the very rich. Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn and French Connection are just fancified version of their originals--TrueValue Hardware, Costco World Market and the Gap. You can't fool me Los Angeles, I know better. If this is where America is heading, count...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Into the Valley, Riding the Bus | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

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