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...chief Massimo Calabresi. "Stronger ties between Serbia and Croatia are not likely to be good for the Bosnian Muslims." Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis apparently played matchmaker, but Calabresi notes each man stands to gain from mutual recognition and the establishment of ties. "Both nations are in bad economic shape, so Milosevic sees the possibilities of greater trade with Croatia. Mending fences with Croatia also goes a long way toward assuring international investors that Serbia is no longer a pariah state. Tudjman gains another feather in his cap as father of his country." Tudjman said afterward: "We agreed on normalization...
DIED. VERMONT CONNECTICUT ROYSTER, 82, Pulitzer-prizewinning newspaperman who helped shape the Wall Street Journal into America's leading business daily; in Raleigh, North Carolina. Royster, whose family had a tradition of naming children after states, wrote a folksy column for 15 years after retiring...
...then poured into a CD mold. The problem is, generic Tracy isn't Tracy at all. One of the things that made her earlier albums so compelling was their inconsistencies, the exquisitely different points they were able to access, like so many different facets on a diamond pressurized into shape by the urgency of honest anger and desperation...
From high above, the burning remnants of the crash looked like a city's lights at night, like the lights of Paris. At sea level they became a pulse of fire, lifted and lowered by the roll of the waves. The shape of the mile-long area of the fires changed continuously, like drops of mercury. Now it was a pool of votive candles. Now a constellation. Now the elongated map of Long Island itself...
...most striking is the Red Pyramid, known by the reddish tinge its iron oxide-rich stone takes on in the light of the setting sun. It is the first pyramid in the classic smooth-sided shape so familiar to schoolchildren. Previously, only step-sided pyramids had been built (a shape that was also seen in Mesopotamia and turned up, much later, in Latin America). It was Snefru who conceived of the more difficult smooth-sided form. "He made the intellectual jump," says Rainer Stadelmann, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Enlisting two of his sons as architects, Snefru...