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...what transpires there generally reflects the balance of force between the combatants. That which is not wrested from an adversary on the battlefield generally can't be coaxed out over a shiny table, and the amount that NATO or Milosevic concedes will be determined by which side has more stomach to continue the fight. In the absence of a decisive military outcome, compromises are inevitable. The only stable deal is one that each side can sell to its supporters as a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping the Road to a Kosovo Settlement | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...hard to talk about democracy on a hungry stomach," he said...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chinese Premiere Speaks at MIT, Draws Protesters | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...Europe, as someone who knows air regulations--where the creed was always "air safety"--and as a man who has always been a sincere friend of the American people, I must admit that the trial result of Marine pilot Richard Ashby hit me like a punch in the stomach. WERNER ROMANELLO Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Fermi died prematurely of stomach cancer in Chicago in 1954. He had argued against U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb when that project was debated in 1949, calling it "a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide." His counsel went unheeded, and the U.S.-Soviet arms race that ensued put the world at mortal risk. But the discovery of how to release nuclear energy, in which he played so crucial a part, had long-term beneficial results: the development of an essentially unlimited new source of energy and the forestalling, perhaps permanently, of world-scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Physicist: ENRICO FERMI | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...green beer turns your stomach, stop by Club Passim for an alcohol-free folk show. "Songwriters in the Square" features the croonsters Edie Carey, Ben Demerath and Joe Panzetta. Club Passim, 47 Palmer...

Author: By St. Paddys, | Title: WEDNESDAY MAR 17 | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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