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History has doubly cursed the Balkans. it not only energizes the combatants in the most perverse way imaginable, it also paralyzes the would-be peacemakers. While the crisis deepens, well-intentioned outsiders ponder their options and fret about the risks in terms borrowed from other wars in other eras...
...This was the charge of the night brigade. But the trio might as well have been riding into the Valley of Death instead of invading the blustery pasture of America's crankiest ball park. The people who buy the tickets, whose taxes pay for the stadiums, who fantasize and fret over their team like anxious parents -- they are mighty Casey at the bat. All muscle, no magic. Strike three. You're out. Game's over. The fans...
...trade and investment, a boon for employment, a lift for standards of living. Critics counter that it will strike a mortal blow at entire sectors of U.S., Canadian and Mexican industry, idling tens of thousands of workers whose jobs will move elsewhere, never to return. Europeans and Asians fret that it may accelerate a division of the world into giant protectionist trading blocs lurking behind new walls of tariffs and bureaucratic restrictions...
...clear sense of Elvis' trajectory. Some of the tracks may stretch the definition of rare -- "previously only released from lacquer source" doesn't exactly have the full dimension of an epochal archaeological find -- but when a song sounds as supercharged as the outtake of King Creole, no one will fret about semantics...
...sobering and understated counterpoint to Babitz' exuberant piece. "In junior high school we went to more funerals than weddings," George writes. Her memoir is filled with children for whom the "concept of life has never been more ephemeral...there is not the need nor time to pace and fret over a future that may never...