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Perhaps the greatest challenge facing the new authorities is building democratic institutions and civic society from scratch after 40 years of communism and 13 years of Milosevic. In a country where those who ruled have always been above the law, it is difficult both for the new rulers and the nation to fully understand the nature of a democratic system, its emphasis on public debate and its respect for legal procedures. A highly publicized trial in Yugoslavia would expose the full extent of Milosevic’s totalitarianism, establishing for good its legacy of violence and fear. More importantly...
Regardless of its shortcomings, the 2001 Freshman Musical is an optimistic experience. Clearly, creating, writing and producing a musical from scratch is an enormous endeavor; The participants in I Spy deserve praise not only for their part in continuing a first-year tradition, but also for the sheer amount of work and effort they put into production...
...Swedish daily Göteborgs-Posten, European Commission President Romano Prodi and Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson indicated a willingness to renegotiate parts of the Kyoto deal to meet U.S. objections. "It would be a tragic mistake to tear up the agreement and start over from scratch," they wrote. "We would lose time, and that would make us all losers." They also stressed that the E.U. would ratify the protocol with or without the participation of the U.S. The E.U.'s strategy - and those of the U.S. and Japan - may become clearer later this week when world environment...
...unusual to talk about someone who makes TV movies as having themes, a voice, an oeuvre. Scratch that: it's unusual to talk about someone who makes TV movies, period. Yet within this undersung field, writer-director Jane Anderson has wrought a body of wry and poignant work about women and power. Her 1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom for HBO won her a writing Emmy and helped define a kind of off-kilter, fact-based drama that has become a pay-cable staple. Showtime's 1998 The Baby Dance, about the class tension...
Finally, we must wonder why it took Bush so long. After all, the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, which has since been mired in controversy over questions of religious discrimination, was created from scratch in a matter of weeks. Bush may simply not have had time to establish his AIDS office earlier. But we cannot help feeling that his priorities are showing...