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...photo. The headline, moreover, was a discreet single line across three columns (DIANA KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN PARIS), a far cry from the banners that ran in most other big-city newspapers. Granted more time, would the Times have given the story bigger play? Lelyveld, a pale, reserved man who seems to personify the good, gray image of the Times, flashes a half-smile. "Actually," he says, "I might have given it less...
...case seems a pale echo of the fiery debates over diversity in the early '90s, when, for example, a Harvard student erected a swastika to protest a classmate's Confederate flag. Today, says UCLA director of residential life Alan Hanson, "multiculturalism isn't really a hot topic." But the growth of religious conservatism could rekindle the flames. "Today you have a larger interest among students in religion, whether it's Orthodox Judaism or...Fundamentalist Christianity," says David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education. One survey indicates that half of freshmen identify themselves as Protestant, up from a third...
...ones smart enough not to go along with what's going on in Rome." But other Catholics defend the show. In his glowing review in the Catholic magazine America, Jesuit TV columnist James Martin writes, "If you think that any of these story lines are beyond the pale, just recall one of your parish council's agendas...
While Karadzic and his cronies have been amassing fortunes, the republic's 900,000 citizens have grown poorer. Unemployment in parts of the Bosnian Serb Republic remains as high as 80%; only 3% of international aid has gone to the Bosnian Serbs, because the Pale hard-liners have refused to carry out Dayton's provisions. Plavsic, who once opposed the treaty, says she realizes that the only way Bosnian Serbs can "reach full economic progress" and survive is to not fight the accord...
Though Karadzic was able to block Plavsic from taking over more police stations last week, U.S. officials believe NATO has enough firepower to quell armed opposition from Pale while she gradually extends her control. The greater danger will be what Washington ends up with if Plavsic succeeds. She may be as obstreperous as her Pale rivals on the treaty's two most contentious provisions: the return of Muslim refugees to their homes and the extradition of indicted war criminals. But Washington is far behind in achieving the treaty's goal of a unified Bosnia before U.S. peacekeepers are scheduled...