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That was in January, when Senator John McCain of Arizona was as unknown to most Americans as a place called Kosovo. But since the NATO air assault against Yugoslavia began five weeks ago, McCain, a 62-year-old former Navy pilot and Vietnam War hero, has won attention and praise as the candidate who didn't hesitate to call for considering the use of ground troops and who criticized the Clinton Administration for squeamishly "trying to avoid war while waging one." His blunt talk was in such demand that his staff lost track of the number of Kosovo-related...
...against nearly 400 Serbian tanks and armored personnel carriers and 43,000 troops--more, not fewer, since the bombing began--still vigorously cleansing Kosovo. But refugees report that Serbian soldiers have shed their uniforms to patrol the roads on stolen tractors, disguising themselves as civilian convoys. An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed. A footnote: as more Apaches arrive, the number of G.I.s in Albania, 350 a month ago, will soon grow to more than...
...propaganda--are most pronounced on the next generation of Serbs. Mirjana's two children, a son, 11, and a daughter, 7, have developed chillingly precocious antipathies. Her son spends most of his time watching state television or playing war with his friends; hide-and-seek is called "catch the pilot." Fiddling with a new chemistry set recently, Mirjana's daughter vowed to cook up a bomb "to blow NATO away...
...modern wood-and-glass home tucked under a stunning outcropping of red rocks in an area called Deer Creek Canyon. On the day before the shooting, neighbors of the Harrises saw Klebold's black BMW parked outside Eric's house. Harris' father Wayne was a decorated Air Force pilot. One neighbor heard one of them ask the other if he had a metal baseball bat. From the garage came sounds of hammering and breaking glass. "He was always in there with the door closed," said a fifth-grader who lived nearby. Police say it would be possible to build...
...Devlin produced Slammin', a half-hour television pilot that received two New York Emmy nominations. In 1998, he released his first full-length feature, SlamNation, a documentary that followed the New York novice team to the 1996 nationals in Portland. Part of the challenge was to find a narrative to streamline 90 minutes of footage while preserving the integrity of the individual performances and the excitement of live slam. Another challenge was marketing the film to general audiences who had preconceived notions of poetry performance. Whether it was his journalistic experience or the power of slam itself. SlamNation converted enough...