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DESPITE OCCASIONAL REFERENCES TO the U.S. military's role in the Balkans as a mission of peace [BOSNIA, Dec. 11], it is abundantly clear that the preoccupation with U.S. world leadership, nato's credibility, robust rules of military engagement, use of overwhelming force and the like have made genuine peacekeeping in Bosnia a secondary issue. This does not augur well for either its short-term or long-term success. IGOR D. RADOVIC New York City...
...offensive end, Harvard's three-point shooting has to come alive. Senior Mike Gilmore and junior Dave Weaver aren't as not from behind the arc as they were earlier this season, and a robust 30 or 35-percent mark for that category will help...
...detective Robert Perez. Perez's charges were based on unvideotaped "recovered memories," which it now seems he may have coerced from children, including his troubled foster daughter. Yet he and local prosecutors still managed to jail 28 people, many poor, mentally deficient, or otherwise unable to mount a robust defense...
Harvard counters Dartmouth's attack with an inside-outside combination of its own in sophomore forward Kyle Snowden and a supporting cast of penetrators and perimeter threats. Snowden leads the team in scoring (17.4 ppg) and rebounding (12.4 rpg) and enters tonight's contest shooting a robust 66 percent from the field...
Oskar Fischinger, an exceptional draughtsman and a refugee from Nazi Germany, also celebrated the vocation of music with film. His clean-lined shapes forsake any of Bute's occasional moodiness for a robust interpretation. Fischinger spent hours making the film "An Optical Poem" by filming suspended paper cut-outs. Using a chicken feather on a stick, and the young John Cage as an assistant, he moved exposure by exposure through a film whose vigor belies none of this inch-work. His use of symphony music and the theatrical quality of his compositions lend his short films the feel of Disney...