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...Bosnia buttresses this argument, as do the American troops whose orders read "Somalia." Yet imagine the reaction if the new Democratic President were someone older and grayer, a Walter Mondale, say, or a Lloyd Bentsen. An aura of anticipation? Unlikely. Rather, the likely response would be a halfhearted shrug at business as usual in the global amphitheater...
...prevailing view among middle-of-the-road Catholics appears to be that no letter at all would have been better than the tepid lip service embodied in the fourth draft. "It has been revised and qualified into insignificance," says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable...
...reasons why the Olympics appeal more than ever this year to Magic, who is now an underdog for the first time, a newcomer to the event, with the odds (personally) against him. For perhaps the first time in memory, we will not greet another no-look pass with a shrug of familiarity: Magic is an amateur again. Why should he, suddenly mortal, risk his health to play in the Olympics? Why should we race off to watch him play in Barcelona? Because the root of the word amateur -- still the heart of the Games, even in these professional times...
...Ukraine, many Tatars in the new settlements are ambivalent. "I came because this is my home," says Mimyet Vileyev, 34, who arrived in the Crimea two years ago for the first time in his life. "I don't believe what any of the politicians say," he remarks with a shrug. "It's their fight...
Walt Disney World in Orlando is a theme park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan...