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President Clinton dispatched 400 of the Army's elite Rangers to Somalia, beefing up the U.S. presence there following a series of attacks on American troops that killed four. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said U.S. forces will stay until the Somali capital is calm, rebel leaders give up their heavy weapons, and a national police force is in place...
...conception of kingship. From there it is downhill to Winterhalter, though Americans will be interested to see their very own Benjamin West, the wunderkind from the colonies and George III's favorite artist, doing a full length of the monarch with Redcoats in the background in 1779. No Yankee rebel, he. The main lesson here about British royal taste is how fast it died after 1830. It would have done better with Mad King Ludwig than with Good Prince Albert...
There's a paradox in being a rock-'n'-roll rebel. To succeed is to fail; the more records you sell, the more you're considered a sellout. Your raison d'etre is antiestablishment rage, but once your record goes platinum, you're forced to admit that a) you're now part of the problem or that b) maybe at least some of the people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway...
...hardest fact, the one that matters most, is that the outnumbered, outgunned, predominantly Muslim Bosnian government has lost the war. Rebel Serbs and Croats, with overwhelming support from their kinsmen in the former republics of Yugoslavia, have together swallowed 90% of Bosnia's territory. The Serb militia is pounding on the gates of Sarajevo, and they are about to fly open. If nothing is done to police the Serb triumph and Muslim defeat, a final, horrifying bloodbath could sweep over the Bosnian capital and other Muslim enclaves. That fear spurred negotiators in Geneva and the Clinton Administration in Washington last...
Every generation likes to believe it is uniquely dysfunctional: the Lost, the Beat, the Me generations. It's the nature of youth to reject and rebel. "We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority," D.H. Lawrence once said. Many people in their 20s believe baby boomers have treated the economy, the environment and even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting...