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Russia and China, who are permanent members of the Council, had been reluctant to go along with the sanctions plan. Its measures range from a complete trade embargo, including oil shipments, to cutting air links and freezing Serbian assets abroad. After quiet negotiations, the Security Council passed the resolution Saturday...
Anthony Gellert '92 transformed what could have been a hard-nosed economics thesis into an unconventional study of the business of taxi cabs.
GEORGE BUSH LOOKED WITHDRAWN AND UNCERtain as he privately discussed urban policy with a trusted adviser outside government. Hard-nosed conservatives like Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, Bush confided, were urging him to take advantage of the Los Angeles riots by emphasizing law and order and resisting new spending, both...
That is the first thing that the exhibition "Rembrandt: The Master & His Workshop: Paintings," now in its closing week at London's National Gallery, makes clear. Rembrandt was not a "literary" painter, as his intense devotion to the muck and glow and substance of paint attests. But he was an...
Which brings us to the matter of the police. Under Daryl Gates, the Los Angeles Police Department became an army, not a police force. With its battering rams and paramilitary uniforms, its choke holds and Taser guns, it set the hard-nosed, Magnum Force, make-my-day standard for urban...