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...problem is the Bosnian Serbs. They object to the notion that the U.S., by agreement a neutral party, would make any move to strengthen the Bosnian army. The U.S. fears Serb attacks on its troops if it uses them to arm and train the Bosnians. In fact, the Clinton Administration has pledged that U.S. troops will not play an active role in rearming the Bosnians. So how is Washington to achieve what it considers the necessary balance of power in the region? After months of fretting, the U.S. has come up with a plan. Senior officials told Time that some...
While few object to tax breaks for families, the G.O.P. credit is unavailable to the sizable number of working families who don't make enough to pay federal income taxes. So is the credit in the White House plan. Nearly a third of U.S. kids, 24 million, live in families too poor to receive any credit...
...human mating rituals, the visitors are astonished by every discovery. When Lithgow, in the guise of a university professor, is invited to his first wedding, he tells his alien friend Sally that "the ceremony begins with the bride being given away." "Excuse me," she says. "Given away? Like an object? As in, free girl with every large fries?" The show is packed with many such consciousness-raising insights-insights that may have been trenchant back when Simone de Beauvoir was drafting The Second Sex. Third Rock's creators, veteran Saturday Night Live writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, have described...
...meals, or a plan that would not require any mandatory dining hall meals but allow students to choose where they wanted to eat for every meal. And if there is money left over on a student's ID card, it should be returned. Even if there are those who object to this idea, because they are attached to their 20-meal plan, there must at least be the option of subscribing to this plan. Adults in the "real world" are allowed to choose what they want to eat; we should...
...NASA'S GRAND SLAM The Hubble Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...