Word: owen
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...current peace plan is in large part due to the efforts of Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, the co-chairs of the United Nations-sponsored conference. For months they dissuaded the U.S. and the U.N. from taking military action in Bosnia, saying that peace was just around the corner...
...their passion for negotiated settlements, Vance and Owen have forgotten that leaders like Milosevic view negotiations as solely a means of continuing their conquest. The peace talks are convenient for the Serbian leader now because his forces have already captured two-thirds of Bosnia. Now, he is looking for a way to secure those gains while defusing the pressure for military action...
Vance and Owen are unwitting tools for achieving these ends. Their continual denunciations of any military options are in essence a gift to Milosevic...
...Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich, an Evangelical Protestant, the real choice is not "creation or evolution" at all, but "purpose or accident." Like millions of ordinary folk, he says, "I passionately believe in a universe with purpose, though I cannot prove it." Purpose, like origin, is a point where the wisdom of empirical science ends and the quest for religious faith begins...
Peterson beat out Dartmouth swimmers in the 100 backstroke, 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 200 breastroke, 500 freestyle and 400 individual medley. And, racing a 9:49.31, Peterson even forced Tri-Captain Ed Owen to swim a lifetime best in the 1000 free (9:48.90, second place...