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While most of Harvard's students were getting their exercise lifting crates and moving into their rooms, the Harvard men's and women's cross country squads trekked to Van Cortlandt Park in New York to participate in their first meet of the year, the five-mile Fordham Invitational...
...fighting Mladic's Bosnian Serb army. "I do not consider myself to be taking sides," says Admiral Leighton Smith, the NATO commander in the region. The 300 or so artillery pieces and tanks ringing Sarajevo--the weapons Mladic has been told to pull back from the 12.5-mile-wide U.N. exclusion zone around the city--have not been targeted. For now, that would be too blatant an intervention and, at the same time, might dangerously encourage the Muslim forces to take the offensive...
...which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated, and for 75 minutes no planes landed: tens of thousands of passengers across...
...spent an entire game on the bench, so continuously that more than 50 million fans have seen nobody but you start the game at your position, you are not on a streak. You are on a river, a long, meandering river like, say, the Susquehanna, which begins its 444-mile journey in Cooperstown, New York, the purported cradle of baseball. From there the Sus quehanna finds its way to Oneonta, the home of 1950 National League mvp Jim Kon stanty; dips down into Pennsylvania before recrossing the border near Bing hamton, where Wee Willie Keeler and Whitey Ford cut their...
...loved. Only once in the past 41 months have they enjoyed a period of relative peace, and it took a massacre in the same area to bring it about. When a Serb shell killed 68 people and wounded an additional 200 in February 1994, nato established a 12.5-mile heavy-weapons-exclusion zone around the city and forced the Serbs to put their guns under U.N. control. For a few months, Sarajevans could even travel into and out of the city by using the U.N.-controlled "blue routes." But by July of last year, the exclusion zone had began...