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...show as a whole was just this side of spectacular. Showcasing tunes from all of their albums, the Junkies played several great numbers from their latest, electrified release, Pale Sun, Crescent Moon, including the driving "Crescent Moon" and the up tempo "First Recollection...
...siege of Sarajevo began to ease last week in the snows of Pale, a former ski resort overlooking the city. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic walked down the front steps of his headquarters in his putative capital, his shaggy hair glistening with snowflakes, to announce: "We do think the war in Sarajevo is finally over." Beside him, Russian special envoy Vitali Churkin, the catalyst for Karadzic's conversion, nodded his agreement. The Serbs, Churkin said, would withdraw their heavy weapons from the heights around Sarajevo. In return, Russia would contribute several hundred soldiers to peacekeeping forces in the area. There...
...anxious Russia -- caught between loyalty to fellow Orthodox Slavs and its interests in cooperating with the West -- to intervene. Air strikes would have forced Boris Yeltsin to risk the wrath of Russian nationalists or to condemn the attacks and alienate international friends. So Churkin paid his visit to Pale, carrying a face-saving plan from Yeltsin...
...quiet on the Harvard campus, floodlit buildings glowing against the pale peaceful background of a Massachusetts winter...
...extra careful, since Mr. Worner, believe it or not, had come to the "historic" meeting against doctor's orders. And we were even more moved when he answered that same journalist's question about the fate of Karadzic's weapons in the so-called Serb capital of Pale -- weapons that would not come under the control of the U.N. Not even the journalist understood the answer, nor did we happy campers at Asha's cafe...