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...this year. The similarities between these films are uncanny: both are British and are filled with incomprehensible English accents; both are about psychopaths who are caught and sent to institutions; both protagonists are selected for an new treatment that will make them change their ways; and both criminals soon revert to their old ways after being released. The movies even have similar first-person narration styles and musical scores...
...economics had nothing to do with it, one cannot accept the hateful and malicious attacks on an entire region of the country. Too often Southerners are painted as ignorant, backward "goons" who must be guided and taught by their sophisticated, progressive Northern compatriots. Left to itself, the South would revert to a mob of tobaccy-chewin', black-lynchin', shotgun-carrying' rednecks. This patronizing attitude does nothing but further convince Southerners that we actually might be better off alone...
...hatreds hindering reconciliation come sharply into focus in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, from which Serb forces shelled the Bosnian capital for almost four years. It is one of a handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...
Chomsky made repeated references to Israeli imperialism in the West Bank, saying that "Israel is finally realizing that the only thing that makes sense is to revert to the classic imperialistic pattern...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...