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...crisis, there are growing calls for various forms of economic and political pressure on Beijing. The diplomatic route may be ultimately more productive, but it's also necessarily a prolonged one, and that won't sit comfortably with U.S. TV audiences watching yellow ribbons flutter in the northwestern breeze and hearing talking heads make ludicrous comparisons to the Iran hostage crisis. The Bush administration may need the active support of congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle in the coming days to head off domestic political pressure for a stronger stand. Because one thing Americans don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Powell Needs American Patience Over China Standoff | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - meant to assuage the Greeks' opposition to the use of the very name Macedonia. Then there was unprofor, the United Nations Protection Force - later unpredep, for U.N. Preventive Deployment - which put a Nordic battalion and an American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Nightmare | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...There's no simple answer, especially now that the most recent conflict - between Kosovo-backed Albanian insurgents and Macedonian forces around the northwestern town of Tetovo - is smoldering rather than blazing. What is certain is that nothing highlights Macedonia's problems as starkly as armed conflict, which is why the international community is scrambling to prove that whatever its grade on conflict prevention, it can do better in conflict management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Nightmare | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...team has come in improving its defense and baserunning will be made clear this weekend, since the Crimson will face two of the teams it lost to last week. Harvard fell to Northwestern, 11-6, and Vermont...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Wraps Up Fla. Road Trip | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

...Northwestern (8-9) has been about as consistent as its record indicates this year. A telling stat for the Wildcats is their three shutout wins and two shutout losses in its first month. Junior Zach Schara, a first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2000, leads a young and fairly deep rotation...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Wraps Up Fla. Road Trip | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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