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Irregular Serb forces captured and "ethnically cleansed" the center of Brcko of its mainly Muslim population last year. Now they are trying to push south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
That revolution was taken over in July 1989 by the Siberian coal miners when they began a strike that shook the economy and the communist bosses. The grimy miners, Remnick reports, were forging a link between the urban intellectuals, the nationalist movements in non-Russian republics, and "the political uprising of workers across the country...
...wife Lucy Durr Hackney served on the Children's Defense Fund with the First Lady and, like her is a lawyer-advocate for children. Washington insiders link Hackney's appointment to the Lucy-Hillary connection. Indeed, the First Lady may be Hackney's most unshakable asset. Amid the "water buffalo" controversy, Hillary Rodham Clinton journeyed to Philadelphia to deliver the commencement address at Penn...
Black students of the late 1960s and early 1970s hotly disputed any link between race and grades. "That's an old racist argument," said A'Lelia Bundles '74, an ABC News producer in Washington. "This is the 'the neighborhood goes to the dogs when you let Blacks in' argument...
...STUDENT GROUPS have their flaws. But the link between identity politics and the non-activist observer can break down elsewhere...