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Victory? The word is technically correct. The Serbs will be out of Kosovo, NATO in. The alliance can be proud it hung together, stuck to its demands and lost not a single soldier in combat--an amazing, unprecedented zero. The West stood up against the obscene barbarism of "ethnic cleansing," drawing moral lines for the world. Serbia's war machine has been mutilated. Air power vindicated itself...
...born in Baltimore, Md., in 1908, when it was still a sleepy Southern town, and he attended its segregated schools. After graduating from Howard Law School--the University of Maryland's law school didn't admit blacks--Marshall hung up a shingle in his hometown and did volunteer legal work for the local N.A.A.C.P. One of his early cases challenged pay gaps in education--black elementary school teachers in Maryland earned $621 a year, while white janitors made $960. Marshall's mother was one of those underpaid teachers...
...tough ball to judge," Carmack said. "At first I thought I could get it. Then I had to hold up and slipped. Maybe I should have hung back a little more with a man at first. It cost us the game...
When Neil Leon Rudenstine assumed Harvard's presidency in 1991, the fanfare was predictably grandiose. Students hung banners from their dorm room windows proclaiming their love for "Rudy." Capitalizing on the enthusiasm, Rudenstine set to work almost immediately with his perceived mandate to unify Harvard's disparate parts and kick off its first-ever University-wide capital campaign with the unprecedented goal of raising $2.1 billion...
...fact is, people in Beijing are no longer hung up on Tiananmen. Beneath the surface, it is easy to tap into the latent sense of outrage toward a government that could do such a thing and then refuse to apologize for it. And there are many in China still fighting the battle, struggling to bring about true democracy and a respect for individuals' rights. But most of China's citizens are contentedly focusing their energies on more pragmatic endeavors, like making money, learning English, studying computers, raising a family...