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...lots of money, and it would dishonor every country and organization involved, particularly if they left hostages behind. A second option would involve NATO's getting tougher with the genocidal, hostage-taking Serbs, but that might lead down a path of commitment for which no Western government has the stomach. Or NATO and the U.N. could simply soldier on, hoping for a diplomatic settlement but perhaps only buying some time until the next crisis...
...their worst nightmares a lot of parents can also hear that gun go brrrr. They aren't so sure it's cool, just as they aren't so sure it's cool when they come across the more stomach-turning specimens of pop music in their kids' CD collections. That's why, when Bob Dole went to Los Angeles last week to blast the entertainment industry, he touched a chord that transcended the party politics his remarks were shrewdly crafted to serve. Though popular culture has a long and proud history of offending the squares, during the current decade...
...Some of us didn't have the stomach to go fightand kill people and that should be forgiven. Whatshould not be forgiven is not fighting for what webelieve in," said Judith Kauffman Baker '70-'71,who cited the struggle for University divestmentfrom South Africa. "We were congratulated byPresident Rudenstine for our backbone...but thoseof us fighting apartheid were met with stonyresistance for 20 years...
...achieve any deeper and more lasting effect -- getting the Serbs to agree to the latest Contact Group peace plan, for example, or even to open negotiations about that plan with the Bosnian government -- might well take a long and intense bombing campaign for which there seems to be no stomach in either the U.S. or Europe. Says Warren Zimmerman, former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia: "Any fool would know the Serbs were going to react the way they have. There's only one response to that, which is to hit them again, and possibly again and again, even at the risk...
DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...