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...official objective is to smash Milosevic's war machine so badly that it will be unable to continue its genocidal onslaught against the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) and Kosovar villages. But so far at least, NATO's onslaught wasn't doing much to release the pressure. As strikes against air-defense systems continued, Kosovar Albanians were struggling against a quickly escalating ground war. Serbian troops, who had been massing on Kosovo's borders for weeks, began to squeeze the province, forcing many units of the rebel K.L.A. to fight for their lives. "We are encircled," a K.L.A. commander told TIME...
Story after story, friend to friend, in the bars, on the commuter trains--tales of a Homeric champion spun in the air like plates on sticks, so that they would not fall and smash, so that children might keep them alive ("You'll never forget that"). DiMaggio was both hero and celebrity, the distinction being that one does and the other is. The hero was the player; the celebrity dated show girls and eventually married Marilyn Monroe, effecting the merger of America's two favorite pastimes. The press protected him, and he protected himself by silence. Hank Greenberg observed that...
...strange that rock 'n' roll in all its flamboyance so rarely finds common ground with theater. The rock musical Hedwig is an exception. A bona fide off-Broadway smash and soon-to-be-movie, Hedwig also makes a captivating rock-'n'-roll album. The tale of a transsexual trailer-park denizen, Hedwig echoes the gender-blending audacity of late 1970s David Bowie and the hormone-stoked feverishness of early Meat Loaf. But John Cameron Mitchell's vocals and Stephen Trask's music have their own raw poetry. The spirit of Hedwig shines through: cheeky, resilient, wounded but triumphant...
...Lowell House Masters, we offer our sincere and wide-eyed promise that we will not smash your Ming vases as we play our rainy-day games. In return, why not allow your all-too-serious future investment bankers a chance to kill or be killed. It's not all fun and games, we know, but we wish it were...
However, there has been a large increase in the number of smash-and-grab burglaries-which aren't accounted for in the statistics-in the first two months...