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...part, Milosevic claims merely to be toiling to preserve what he can of the old Yugoslavia. He can accept the departure of Slovenia, whose declaration of independence engendered a shorter military conflict early this summer; even Croatia can leave, yet only within reduced borders now being carved out by the Serb rebels. But on a continent with other untested borders, changing existing ones by force cannot be sanctioned. That is the nasty * precedent that the European Community, to the extent that it can control anything in a conflict fueled by apparently boundless ethnic hatred, is determined to prevent...
...shorter New Yorker articles, one on the Portuguese-American fishermen of Provincetown, Mass., and the other, the title piece, on an environmentalist who patrols the Hudson River, are well sketched, though they might usefully have been longer. This is solid work in a traditional landscape, and the reader resolves to watch for more...
Bressler and Jennings are big. Jennings stands in at 6'5" and weighs 225 pounds; Bressler is one inch shorter, but weighs 275 pounds...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...