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...along the road Peise had taken. It had been widened and straightened but in parts was still lined by ditches and fruit trees. We looked for the valley where the hospital train had been shelled and, halfway through our journey, came on a place I thought resembled it: the railway track was there, though the slope was not nearly as steep as my child's memory had recorded. Other landmarks from the past must have been there; I spotted none but nonetheless felt oddly content just to be on the road I had first traveled so long...
...Croatian government to launch its largest offensive since 1991, sending a total of 7,200 army and police troops into Sector West, as the U.N. calls it, from two sides. After a little more than 30 hours, the government proclaimed success in liberating the road and an adjacent railway line, and within two more days had subdued the last Serb pockets of resistance throughout the sector. The Croats reported a total of 42 dead among their forces and estimated Serb losses at between 350 and 450 men. In a televised address to the nation, a triumphant Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
Consider, for instance, his portrait of a friend, the English writer Michael Podro. Its title is The Jewish Rider. The man sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through...
...that will save $6.4 billion over five years. Pena proposed collapsing 10 DOT divisions into three, reducing staff 12 percent by 1999 and privatizing several key functions. Under the plan, most of the department would be consolidated into an Intermodal Transportation Administration, which would assume the functions of highway, railway and other transit offices. Air traffic control would handled by a quasi-independent body outside the Department. Legal and accounting duplication would be eliminated. Pena will send a detailed plan by March to Congress, which must approve the changes...
Store owners soon clashed with the government over efforts to extend transportation to the Square. The state proposed an elevated railway during the 1870s, but local entrepreneurs fought the plan. Eventually, the entrepreneurs won a compromise, and an underground subway system, which had the principal advantage of not being an eyesore, was built between 1909 and 1912, according to the Cambridge Historical Commission...