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...Croatia that was seized by local Serbs in 1991. An armed conflict there could bring in the powerful army of Serbia, yet Tudjman has vowed to take the territory back by force before the end of the month, when the U.N. mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid 250,000 mines, dug 62 miles of new trenches and built more than 100 new bunkers." Despite Tudjman's "crude saber-rattling threats," as one U.S. State Department document...
...Bartok; last summer he performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Boston Symphony, and he has just released a disc of suites for keyboard by Handel. Always a difficult composer to pigeonhole--he is scornful of minimalism, which his music sometimes resembles, and calls New Age music, which some profess to hear adumbrated in his solo improvisations, "Jell-O"--the protean Jarrett seems not only more successful but also more elusive than ever...
Apparently, the purpose of the protest was to argue that those who profess views different from their own, those who do not support all of the "lifestyles" and "values" of the sixties, those who believe there are higher modes in life than pursuit of instant gratification, have no place here...
What planet are these white people living on, the ones who profess such shocked surprise at the Mark Fuhrman tapes? Haven't they heard what black people have been telling them all these years: that the ranks of major police departments all across the country are full of Fuhrman-style lying bigots? Not all cops, by any means, not even most of them, but enough to generate a steady stream of racially motivated police misconduct. Most of it never makes the national news--the hundreds of cases in which minority suspects are manhandled, beaten or even killed. But certainly...
...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...