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Idealism is useful inasmuch as it forces us to define our values and love them enough to fight for them. But it cannot be an excuse to sidestep the grim realities of war. We cannot allow our idealism to replace our vigor. By promising to fight we have to fight with our whole hearts...
...allies--and it made them hungry for more. As planners unleashed a broader weekend bombing campaign, they still believed air power could keep Milosevic from sweeping the province clean of ethnic Albanians. But as the human tide continued to flood out of Kosovo, the alliance could offer little but grim hope that anything they were doing could stop...
...movement is driven less by ideology than by economics. Part of graduate school's allure has always been the promise of a cushy professorial job and the likelihood of tenure within a few years. But today that career path looks grim. Of the 8,000 students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities between 1996 and 2000, less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think...
Three things struck Holbrooke during his Monday meeting. First, there was a grim fatalism in the air. He also noticed a total lack of interest on Milosevic's part in a rational exchange of views and a total refusal to discuss Washington's positions. And finally, there was a sense of unreality in some of Milosevic's own views, as he insisted over and over that the Serb offensive the Western media were reporting in Kosovo simply was not taking place. "Yeah, there's a little bit of fighting down there, but it's just police actions against criminals," Milosevic...
...English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power but to choose her own grim fate, is a worthy cinematic sister to Mouchette, Robert Bresson's great document of adolescent despair...