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...world that grieves for Bosnia today is naturally exercising one. Pictures of European toddlers orphaned and brutalized in Sarajevo evoke the kind of fellow feeling among Western nations that similar tragedies elsewhere, sad to say, do not. Images of starving European inmates behind barbed wire also produce keener resonances in a civilization with Auschwitz and Treblinka only 50 years removed. And Bosnia today has a legal claim on help that Somalia, a case of literal and utter anarchy, does not: Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step...
...Kuwaitis had worsened considerably. Foreigners account for more than 60% of Kuwait's population and more than 80% of its work force. "Oil exacerbated the underlying tensions," says Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian political sociology professor at the American University in Cairo. "The fantastic wealth made all Kuwaitis keener on emphasizing their Kuwaitiness because being Kuwaiti meant enormous privileges...
...gruff, mumbling figure of authority and mystery? No one could be certain. The President himself confessed, "I didn't understand him at meetings . . . I'd just nod my head, but I didn't know what he was actually saying." Joseph Persico has better hearing than Ronald Reagan, and a keener eye for biographical detail...
Faced with low morale in the uniformed ranks, Gorbachev seems to have developed a keener appreciation of the military's worth. Last summer Gorbachev defended his proposed reductions by saying that the 101 divisions cut had become "feeding troughs" for officers. Then, after Soviet soldiers restored order in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku in January, Gorbachev warned the press against "antiarmy propaganda" and put through an increase in officers' salaries and allowances that will cost about $2 billion. Unlike some of his predecessors, Gorbachev never served in the military. But if his problems persist, Gorbachev may find himself treating...
...those things provide an initial menu tooccupy the time of the new dean," Bok said. "Butit may well be that in the process of the searchwe'll unearth a keener sense of problems thatwould cause me to add to that list...