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...Definitely. In fact the West has probably played an important role in brokering the agreement, and making it clear that there is no politically acceptable alternative. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson this week issued the harshest condemnation by a Western official of the National Liberation Army (the Albanian separatist guerrilla group), calling them criminals and thugs. On the other hand, he also leaned heavily on the government to avoid declaring a state of war, which could inflame the conflict. The West has clearly been raising the pressure on the NLA in Kosovo, too, which remains the key logistical support base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Political Agreement Won't End Macedonia Violence' | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line of editing for most of Hughes's career. His role as both editor and promoter of Hughes's work places Van Vechten in a pivotal role in the formation of many of the era's most important works of art. Without...

Author: By Avi S. Steinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Letters From the Renaissance | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...inequities of drug laws - to many, Downey (and his repeated failures to stay clean) represents the dark-side celebrity/wealth escape clause that keeps the rich and famous, not to mention the white and middle class, out of the nation's toughest prisons, and exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend the power of treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Robert Downey Jr.'s Case Spark a Change in Drug Sentencing? | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

Darling and Hawkins were among the election commission's harshest critics...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergraduate Council Election Commission Gets Tough the Second Time Around | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Tremouille's harshest attacks have come against Barrios, who supports further upgrades along the riverfront near Magazine Beach...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Farewell to Mother Goose? | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

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