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...Harvard water polo team needed a lift after their tough loss to Brown last Thursday, they got one last night against...
...real muscle fans, the Cirque offers the Lorador brothers, yet another family devoted to getting into awkward positions. These two Portuguese gargantuans appear onstage in green leather tank tops and lift each other onto and off a wooden table. Although it's a little painful to watch them sweat and grunt through the act, the number does present an impressive showcase of original places to put the various parts of the human body...
...wherewithal to defeat each other but can actually become stronger if they combine resources. South African whites cannot suppress the blacks without exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both. Such realizations come hard, over a long arc of years, after all attempts to demolish the enemy are done...
Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic flew to Washington to ask President Clinton to set a deadline for the use of force if Bosnian Serbs do not lift their siege of Sarajevo. Instead, President Clinton advised him to head back to the bargaining table with Bosnian Serbs and Croats; Clinton said the U.S. will not intervene militarily, though U.S. troops could help monitor a peace agreement, if Congress approved. Back in the Balkans, one big surprise: Bosnian Croats admitted what the Muslims have long been claiming -- that conditions for Croat-held Muslim prisoners are inhumane...
...open letter released last week, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help...