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SARAJEVO: Chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke headed back to the Balkans as Bosnia slid closer to war, the furious Bosnian Serb Army cutting contact with NATO forces and forbidding civilians to move about freely. These actions frustrate the most important achievements of the peace processes: open lines of communication with NATO and free travel. The Bosnian Serbs are protesting the arrest of two Serb soldiers, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic, who are now being held by the Bosnian Muslims pending their possible indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal. In a rare press conference, Serb Lt. General Milan...
...upstairs to consult the Weather Channel, we settle down, as cozy gods do, to hover high above the earth and watch the map with a divine perspective. Moist air labeled L for low rides up the continent from the Gulf of Mexico and collides with the high that has slid down from the North Pole. And thus is whipped up the egg-white fluff on the studio map that, down in the frozen, messy world, buries mortals...
Less than six minutes into the game and with a man advantage, Harvard freshman Craig Macdonald whipped a pass to senior Kirk Nielsen, who had sneaked down low in the zone right next to the left goalpost. Nielsen then slid a pass right in front of the net to freshman Craig Adams, who banged a shot past. Union goaltender Trevor Koenig to give Harvard its first tally of the game...
Following a scoreless second period, Princeton showed signs of life, taking just 1:08 to get on the board in the third. Tiger captain Karen Chernisky slid the puck past Crimson netminder Jen Bowdoin (19 saves) to pull the home team to within two goals...
...Durang slid into a kind of depression while at Harvard, lifting only in his senior year, when he found himself able to write again. To amuse his friends, Durang had been making up alternate lyrics to musical comedy standards, and soon had enough material for an entire musical of his own, entitled "The Greatest Musical Ever Sung...