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Americans and Europeans remember a long series of empty Western threats to intervene to stop the slaughter. Only a month ago, a disgusted State Department official had summed up President Clinton's strategy: "The object of U.S. policy is to keep Bosnia out of the headlines. Every day it's not in the news is another day of success." The 120-mm shell that hit the market made that policy a thundering failure and raised embarrassing questions: If even this could not move Clinton and the leaders of Western Europe to act, would anything do so? If not, how could...
...film ends happily. But not before the audience sees some of the most beautiful, and very French, shots ever put on the screen. Whenever the concerto's music flashes into Julie's mind, the screen is either swathed in blue or focused on some minute object. One striking example is the shot of a steaming cup of coffee which has overflowed into its accompanying saucer...
...object to proctored exams for two reasons. First, the role of a proctor is entirely unnecessary from a logistical standpoint. Their administrative workload could easily be shuffled onto teaching fellows, who normally make themselves available during exams anyway. A Ph.D. candidate in the GSAS is entirely capable of reading instructions, telling undergrads to sit in every other seat, and giving permission for students to go wee wee during the test. And the presence of a TF is just as effective in deterring any would be cheaters...
...What I object to is the governor's sense thatthis is the best we can do," he says. "I think wecan take another crack to do better...
What rankles some blacks is that some whites feel a need to make all black leaders speak out whenever one black says something stupid. "People are deeply offended that whites always seem to feel that they have to tell black people what to object to, what to condemn," says Clayton Riley, a talk-show host on WLIB, a black radio station in New York City. "There is no comparable kind of instruction to whites...