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No sooner had Washington been sobered by this possibility than the Bosnian Serbs reversed course again. At a meeting of their self-designated parliament at Pale, in the mountains east of Sarajevo, they refused overwhelmingly to accept the Vance-Owen plan and Karadzic's signature on it. They ignored his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Warrior | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Yet despite his manifest commitment to student theater (or perhaps because of it), Symonds was denied the permanent job of undergraduate technical director last week in favor of an outside candidate. A petition to University administrators didn't help, the HRDC board's self-imposed silence to the campus media...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offer Him a Job | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Indeed, Stephanopoulos's hour-long appearance was something of a lovefest: while he came peddling Clinton's message of "shared responsibility" and pleas for people to work together, his speech was also marked by witty asides and raucous laughter.

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Stephanopoulos Speaks About Clinton | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Bill Clinton incessantly told voters last fall that he would end gridlock between the White House and Congress. That is one campaign promise he might keep. In early tests, the heavily Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has acted like an Administration steamroller. It easily passed not only a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye Gridlock, Hello Steamroller | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

Slapdash pleas are sometimes less brutal than the farcical trials that can result when ill-prepared lawyers are thrown in over their heads. In 1983 a man named Victor Roberts and an accomplice stole a car and drove to an Atlanta suburb hunting for a house to burglarize. Posing as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of the Public Defender | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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