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...water and prayed that the Serbs' artillery barrage would not fall on them--would be captured. The dream of "Greater Serbia" might be realized. Our anguish mingled with the faint hope that the international community's latest humiliation might be its last, that the fall of Srebrenica would prompt the Western powers to respond...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: A Victory For Peace | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

POLICE PROCEDURE. To blacks who read the acquittal as a righting of scales that had been weighted against them, the glaring injustice for O.J. was police negligence, not to mention Detective Mark Fuhrman's bigotry. Investigators came off looking like Keystone Kops, which will certainly prompt a new skepticism about police testimony in all sorts of proceedings. Suggests prominent San Francisco trial lawyer John Martel, a Simpson prosecution consultant: "Perhaps an enlightened society has to pay a price like that to learn of the depth and cost of police misconduct, not just in Los Angeles but elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LESSONS OF THE TRIAL | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

Students can log on normally and type "vote" at the Unix prompt. Or they can enter "vote" instead of their login name if they don't have an e-mail account or have forgotten their passwords...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: First-Years Will Vote Via Internet | 9/30/1995 | See Source »

Keeve's lens roves over a host of intriguing characters, from Mizrahi's mothah, no mean fashion critic--especially to her son--to customer Eartha Kitt, whose gleeful shimmying and frothy poodles prompt Mizrahi to muse, "It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dogs...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Fashion Stripped to Fun | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...hungry students called HSTO, many were greeted with long periods on hold, some of which ended in sudden and inexplicable disconnections. Only refusing to answer the touch-tone menu guaranteed a conversation with a live assistant. To HSTO's credit, however, those students who managed to reach assistants received prompt activations of lines and services. But because of the log-jam of complaints, many students are still waiting for lines...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: TELEPHONE BLUES | 9/15/1995 | See Source »

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