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...Losses sting especially hard, after all, when they come to an opponent whom one has beaten for 16 consecutive years. They sting when one hears beforehand that there is a new breeze invigorating the Harvard program, when one actually begins to believe that perhaps things are different...
...Washington's blueprint works, and that remained dicey, the rough disposition of peoples that is now a fait accompli, thanks to the Croatian army's blitz through the Serb-held Krajina region, would serve as defensible territories for coexistence. One thorn in this rose may really sting the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo: a suggested abandonment of Gorazde, the remnant republic's last outpost in the east, in exchange for Serb concessions of greater breathing space around Sarajevo itself. In turn, the U.S. would lead its allies in committing substantial reconstruction aid to Bosnia and, most important, some...
Clinton's plan, by focusing on both law enforcement and advertising, follows successful steps already being taken by local governments. In San Jose, California, an antismoking group talked the city into outlawing cigarette vending machines in all public places and sanctioning sting operations against vendors selling to kids; sales to minors dropped an estimated 60% over three years. In Seattle similar measures reduced overall sales of cigarettes to minors 45% in a three-year period...
Thousands milled pensively at the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, in the district where in 1965 the Dead first kicked open the doors of perception with its perky anthems to the Hippie Nation. The sweet sting of reefer smoke drifted from doorways, as Jerry's kids paid the revered pothead a small toke of their esteem. A tree outside Ben & Jerry's ice cream parlor (where a flavor is named Cherry Garcia) was adorned with photos, scarves and roses, many roses...
...became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"--he did that long before Muhammad Ali was born. On the other hand, he was a fine painter but never a great one, though some of his decorative work--conspicuously, the fabulous gold-on-leather Peacock Room in Washington's Freer Gallery--rose to greatness as decoration...