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...MACEDONIA Collateral Damage Macedonian forces continued pounding ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
...Known For: Spellbinding oratory, liberal orthodoxy, Hamlet-esque indecision...
...reparations movement, to be sure, has won some scattered victories. In 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles signed a law providing $2.1 million to the survivors of a 1923 rampage by a white mob on the mostly black hamlet of Rosewood. The Oklahoma legislature is considering reparations for the survivors of a 1921 race riot in Tulsa in which as many as 300 people were murdered. California has enacted a law crafted by state senator Tom Hayden that will force insurance companies to disclose whether they issued policies that paid slave owners in the event of a slave's death...
Hessler and his one American colleague are the first foreigners seen in Fuling in 50 years: they get catcalls in the streets, their mail is opened and censored, and what they teach in class--Beowulf, Hamlet, a ballad about Robin Hood--is strictly vetted by local party officials. Yet in private, people open up to Hessler about their marital difficulties, dislike of party control, career plans and all the other complexities of their everyday lives...
...Oscar (and critical) favorite: a movie that reminds us of the better movies they don't make any more. Thus The English Patient was a psychological spectacle in the David Lean tradition; Shakespeare in Love was a screwball romance with fancy English; Braveheart was a historical epic, like Hamlet or A Man for All Seasons but with more blood and lots less eloquence...