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...agreement, after Serbia has taken its lumps, to return to negotiations. But no one believes Milosevic will simply sign on to the agreement that the Kosovars have accepted. No, there would have to be new conditions about the terms of autonomy for Kosovo and how the peace would be kept. Any changes made at Milosevic's behest would predictably give the Kosovars furious fits. And if Kosovo has turned into a killing field, as some aid agencies last week were insisting it has, then stability may be a 10- or 15-year project...
...these contradictions have kept Washington and its allies guessing. Few believe Milosevic's attachment to Kosovo is more than skin deep. Some Serbs say he stirred up the crisis to distract attention from the foundering economy. Yet in considering whether to placate the West or defy it, he is operating according to his own calculus of the risk to himself and his regime. The issue comes down to his feeling about the place where the myth of his own power was built. "He doesn't know," says a top U.S. official in Belgrade, "whether caving in makes him lose face...
...during the Cultural Revolution but did not get sent down. "She was one of those people who did everything well," says her friend Yan. With grandparents educated at Oxford and parents educated at Harvard, Chen had the pedigree for success, as well as the stern expectations. Joan's father kept asking what she was going to do with her life. "In my family," Chen says, "going into acting was regarded as strange...
...situation that would become familiar to her. She taught at the school at which she studied, London's Architectural Association, and kept winning big competitions but building only small projects, like restaurant interiors and a fire station, until 1994. That year she was engulfed in another tsunami of publicity when she won the international competition for the opera house in Cardiff, Wales. Almost as soon as her victory was announced, the controversy began. An outspoken Arabic woman proposing an intellectually demanding, uncompromising design in a Britain in which the future king publicly bemoaned the lack of pretty, traditional buildings...
...this case, at least, the monitoring was badly inadequate. The panel learned, for example, that 200,000 patients have taken Rezulin for a year or more--or maybe it's 400,000. No one could say if the risk leveled off after six months or kept growing. No one knew if the 35 deaths represented all those who died from Rezulin. Complained panel member Jules Hirsh of Rockefeller University: "The information base is very inadequate...