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...they merely hunker down in the six existing misnamed safe havens, it will become impossible for them to fulfill those missions. Worse, they will continue as prime targets of the Serbs, because the Bosnian Muslims use those very same areas to rest, retrain and plan counterattacks. If, to render themselves less vulnerable, they retreat to more remote locations, they will be safer but almost wholly irrelevant-unless they become combatants, which is the last thing their governments want...
...developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer uses OpenDoc instead of ole, he runs the risk that Microsoft will at some future point make a subtle change in Windows that would render his programs useless. "Everything Microsoft is building is linked to ole," says Jerry Michalski, editor of the newsletter Release 1.0. "Everywhere you look there are these dependencies...
...attack on science is taking place on two fronts--one direct, the other indirect. The direct attack is an attempt to render science subjective and hence to place it on equal ground with the rest of the disciplines which have already been infected by post-modernism's ideas. The indirect attack is aimed at diverting funds from scientific research to the humanities, which are already in the clutches of post-modernism...
...less impressive are Wolfe and Goor as her children. As the weather-obsessed Susannah, Wolfe gives a gracefully subtle performance, avoiding edgy fanaticism to render her apocalyptic yearnings as lyric. Goor's Andrew, home from the Gulf War, is shellacked in gold, silent and frozen. When he launches vigorously into a tightly woven monologue about the bliss and religious rapture of bombing Baghdad, he is both uncompromisingly hysterical and profound...
...minority students have succeeded, using the springboard of education to charge into the job market. Affirmative action in the job market will level the playing field for these new career-seekers until enough of them have succeeded to render it obsolete...