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...final difficulty for the initiative is the manner in which it is being presented. In May 1993 Warren Christopher traveled to Europe to discuss Bosnia and, instead of forcefully presenting the new American plan, halfheartedly canvassed the Europeans for their views. Neither the Americans nor the allies have forgotten the waffling and confusion that resulted. "This time," says an Administration official, "it has to be the leader of the free world telling them that this is the way it's going to be. Publicly they'll complain that they don't like to be pushed around, but privately they...
...much in the way of meaningful conversational alternatives to the women, with many seemingly uncomfortable around the better-looking women. Again what was so unsettling about these situations was not merely that they occurred, but there were no women who could be counted on to interact in a different manner...
Cooper's "disciplinary case was initiated andconsidered in a prejudicial manner solely based onthe student [']s gender, color, anduncharacteristic size," the complaint alleges."The unequal treatment of the Student was totallylacking in rational justification...
...playing on Saturday was a striking immediacy. Rather than using time to create intense emotional drama, as Sviatoslav Richter did in his landmark 1960 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorg, Ax manifested an incessant urge to build in an efficient and almost austere manner...
...Britten and Auden reduced the mythic giant logger to a booming invisible voice, sounding like a cross between Walter Cronkite and Big Brother, that directs the taming of the wilderness. His minions include a creatively frustrated egghead, a hot-tempered muscleman, a pair of winsome young lovers and all manner of ax-swinging loggers and their "wimmin." Inexplicably absent is Babe the Blue...