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More important, it is invaluable as a way of voicing an opinion without voicing an opinion. "The American People won't support ground troops," Senator Trent Lott said about Kosovo last week. What he meant was that he won't support ground troops. But it sounds so much better when the American People...
...squeeze Milosevic into agreeing to stop uprooting Kosovars from their homes, negotiate with them, restore the political autonomy they lost in 1989, and accept some kind of monitoring force from outside Yugoslavia. Albright told a meeting of foreign ministers in London that any agreement must be verified on the ground because Milosevic "is a congenital liar...
Departing from most education reporting, which tends to focus on vouchers, budgets and teachers' salaries, we went right to the source: the students themselves. "We went about this from the ground up," says Claudia Wallis, the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS and a mother of three who wrote our lead story on exceptional students. "We were interested in figuring out what made these kids tick. To do that, we spoke with the students, their parents, friends, teachers and coaches." Finding the kids featured in Wallis' article required a nationwide search, coordinated by the project's chief reporter, Megan Rutherford...
Representatives of the owners and players sat down for talks last week, but like Charles Barkley and Dennis Rodman fighting for the low post, neither side gave ground. Commissioner David Stern canceled the exhibition season. And this week is likely to bring worse news: because teams need at least three weeks to sign free agents and hold training camps, Stern and the owners, who have locked the players out since July, are expected to call off at least part of the 82-game regular season...
...take some advice from the experts: introduce your kids to a computer, but set some ground rules. And keep a soccer ball on hand...