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...should not be surprising that Chechens would be up in arms following this kind of treatment. But their suffering at the hands of Russia extends back much further. Chechnya only became part of Russia after 19th-century wars. During World War II, Stalin was suspicious of their loyalty, and deported almost the entire nation to Central Asia in cattle trucks, a journey which perhaps a third of them did not survive. Unsurprisingly, they declared themselves independent as many minorities in the fomer U.S.S.R. did, starting the first Chechen war, from which they emerged with a limited form of autonomy...
...which we will all be living in just a few short years--it's not a matter of worrying about a roommate moving out. It's a matter of discrimination and of violence. The names Matthew Shepherd and Rita Hester terrify us because we can never forget the kind of brutal violence that ended their lives. It's a world where there are people willing to slaughter two men in their bed because they believe it is God's will. There is no conservative minority in that world. Out there, it's the conservatives who have the power...
...race in America, sits stuck in his In box. The topic is one that Clinton cares deeply about and is supremely qualified to examine. Tentatively titled Out of Many, One, the book aims to offer the President's personal vision of future racial and economic justice, and a kind of work plan on how to get there. "The good news is, he really cares enough about it to want to own it," says one of the ghostwriters, Harvard professor Christopher Edley Jr. But that, he adds, is also "the bad news...
...halfhearted prosecution of the war in Kosovo, he agreed that American interests and credibility were threatened and that force was justified. He has since said that he "was completely wrong" to oppose similar action in Bosnia. "John's not an absolutist," says Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel. "In this kind of world, that would be damn dangerous...
...computer errors; happily, we've lived through most of them. "People in this country need to worry a lot more about the effects of drinking and driving this New Year's Eve than they do about Y2K," says TIME techonolgy writer Joshua Quittner. And that's exactly the kind of attitude the White House wants us to keep in mind as we inch toward the big moment: Computers crash, bags are lost and airplanes are late every day of the year. And there's no reason to think that New Year's Eve will be any different. Unless, of course...