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Bosnia's victims, Muslim, Croat and Serb alike, plead that there can never be lasting peace in the Balkans if individuals who raped and pillaged and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians are not brought to judgment. But the obstacles are formidable. Despite a recent show of cooperation from Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, the two Presidents have largely stonewalled the tribunal. Both have deeply vested interests in preventing investigations and trials that could incriminate their political apparatus or themselves. Western powers sit down and do business with them because both men are needed to make...
...written pieces that many colleagues regarded as traitorous. The aspect of my first book, Mirror Worlds, that attracted the most attention was the debate between pro- and antitechnology alter egos; my skeptical side won. I'd also published attacks on the use of computers in school. Parents plead for a decent education in the basics, reading and writing and history and arithmetic, and too many teachers respond with vacuous fun and games with computers...
...steps of an airplane, while Clinton lunges at the chance to go overseas and appear the responsible grownup. Be presidential, Clinton's aides advise, something that comes more naturally to Dole, who has never been President, than to Clinton, who already is. Be more natural, Dole's aides plead; let people inside, let the words come out of your mouth, tell them your story, show a little leg, say it, just...
...former Widener Library employee, Womack plead not guilty to charges leveled against him in December 1994, which included a count of receiving stolen property...
Although Womack has made comments such as, "I won't stop [my assault against the system] until the voices tell me to stop," Homans' said Womack did not plead insanity in the case because a psychiatrist diagnosed him with a severe personality disorder, not a psychotic disorder...