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Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim government of Bosnia signed an agreement to open the besieged capital of Sarajevo to the outside world beginning Wednesday. The U.N.-brokered accord does not permit military or commercial traffic. In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia. Meanwhile, Croatian Serbs and the government of Croatia said that they will meet in Zagreb this week to hold peace talks aimed at ending their three-year...
That does little to clarify the case. Oluloro traveled to Oregon to marry a fellow Nigerian who had a U.S. residency permit. Over the years, she says, she and the children endured beatings by her husband Emmanuel, leading to a divorce last year. Lydia, who works as a janitor and has custody of the girls, lost the right to stay in the country because Emmanuel never completed the paperwork necessary to give her legal-residency status. She says she cannot leave her children to an abusive father -- but how can she take them home to an abusive culture? Emmanuel contests...
...After months of debate among intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Commerce Department, the Clinton Administration announced that it will permit commercial firms to market advanced spy-satellite technology to customers around the world. Some experts fear the move could compromise national security...
...friend just sent me a copy of your March 7 feature article "Student Journal Ceases to Shock: The Peninsula No Longer Influences," for which I was interviewed by the article's author. Please permit me to correct some of the factual claims and challenge the central thesis of the article...
Bennett is not demagoguing the verities. He anthologizes the old republic and the old virtues, but he addresses virtue at a level of commonality that is deeper than politics or nostalgia. "We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions," Bennett writes, "to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely on the importance of good character...