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Cornel R. West '74 is an icon. Three-piece suit. Starched shirt. Cufflinks. Full Afro. Limbs in motion, head thrown back, fist raised in the air. A sharp-dressed man, from top to bottom...
...diplomatic phalanx went into furious motion last week as Washington stewed over martial means and ends. Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose Gulf War success carries great weight, spoke up on Kosovo after weeks of silence. A foreign policy imbroglio that requires military force needs clear, precise goals if that force is to be used wisely, advised the retired Army general. "You have to have pretty solid political objectives, and then apply decisive force to them," he said. "Nothing in the Powell doctrine says no casualties." He pointedly noted that the Gulf War planners...
...shepherded home to their charred villages before the autumn snows turn the battered province into a frigid moonscape. So too does the inflexible logic of winter force NATO to confront whether ground troops even remain a live option. As a State Department official noted, there's a lot of motion going on, but not a lot of change...
...kids, the end of quality time is nigh. The bigwigs at Nasdaq have set in motion a plan to conduct an evening trading session, allowing brokers and online investors alike to buy and sell the index's 100 largest stocks from 5:30 until as late as 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. E.T. "This is very much a product of the stock-crazed world that we're living in right now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "A bear market in the next month or two, and this plan will quietly go away -- temporarily. In the end, though...
...communist-dominated opposition in the Duma was infuriated by Primakov's dismissal--he enjoyed good relations with the communists--but was certain that it would guarantee the 300 votes needed to impeach Yeltsin on at least one of the five counts leveled against him. The motion with the best chance of success accused Yeltsin of starting a violent civil war in the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya in 1994. But once again Yeltsin thwarted his opponents. Last Saturday one-third of the Duma failed to turn up for the most important vote in their careers. Opposition deputies claimed, without offering...