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There is not much upside for Holbrooke in Kosovo: a failure here could cost him credibility. Since the war's end, the province has descended into a bureaucratic hell where everyone claims to be in charge of everything, but no one takes responsibility for anything. The slow-moving U.N., instead of providing solutions, serves mostly as an excuse, as in, "The U.N. was supposed to do that." "Things aren't going well at all," says a U.N. adviser based in Pristina. "We're at the point of a make-or-break, do-or-die situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Holbrooke: Jumping into the Fire | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Geronimo ju Jaga (Pratt), America's foremost class-war prisoner, has endured 23 years of California prison hell. He was framed in the early 1970s for a murder the state knows he didn't commit. A former leader of the Black Panther Party, Geronimo was a named target of the FBI's vicious COINTELPRO campaign against black activist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Government Unjustly Imprisons Black Activist | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...Hell hath no fury like an attorney general misled. Janet Reno on Friday announced that she?s looking for an independent investigator to probe the Waco debacle, capping a week in which she?s done little to hide her displeasure at being left in a no-man?s-land by the FBI. On Wednesday Reno sent U.S. marshals across the road to seize evidence from FBI headquarters, in a high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ready for the Showdown at FBI Corral | 9/3/1999 | See Source »

...chose a nice assisted-care facility with a spacious one-room apartment overlooking a courtyard in the Los Angeles suburb of Tarzana. But after just a month there, Round Two of elder-care hell began. While taking a walk around the block, he fell. I was out of town on assignment. By the time I got back to the city, 12 hours later, the local emergency-room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Care Of Our Aging Parents | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying to leave, and by having to teach idiots who may get a ticket out. A figure of fear, and possibly pity, Eve Tingle is a nightmare pedagogue --the teacher from Hell High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Crash Course In Humiliation | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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