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...that a new party was also on the brink of winning the presidency for the first time since I was almost too small to remember, Weld's move shook me. It was that easy for the governor to render months, even years, of grassroots organizing in Northampton--Olver's stronghold and home base--completely useless at the following election. While Weld's move didn't ultimately work (John Olver is currently US Representative in the 2nd congressional district), my faith in politics was damaged forever...
...DETERMINED RAbija Osman Oprhal recently walked across a Sarajevo bridge from the ruined Serb-held neighborhood of Grbavica, a Bosnian soldier at a sandbagged checkpoint stared in astonishment at her identity documents. Hers is a Muslim name, and for more than three years Grbavica had been an "ethnically cleansed" stronghold of Serb extremism. "How is it that you have come from over there?" he asked. Rabija, 52, fixed the man with her gray-blue eyes. "I live there," she replied...
...unbelievable complexity of my annual tax returns simply because I earn money outside a regular payroll. Our current irs laws actually punish anyone for being even a little tempted toward ventures that show initiative or entrepreneurship. We definitely need change if we want the U.S. to be a capitalist stronghold. OMER NISLEY Hanna, Indiana...
...criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been a stronghold for critics of Karadzic's. While some determined Serbs cling to their outposts in Sarajevo, all leading participants in the power scramble seem likely to reject the fanatic nationalism of Karadzic and Mladic and to opt for at least temporary cooperation with the Implementation Force of NATO and its associates...
...Bears are in fourth place against Ivy League competition but are in third place in the ECAC overall, and they will threaten perennial stronghold Northeastern come ECAC tournament time. ECAC STANDINGS ECAC Overall Team W L T W L T Northeastern 5 0 0 6 3 1 UNH 4 0 0 10 2 0 Brown 2 0 1 4 2 1 Cornell 1 2 2 3 3 2 Dartmouth 2 1 0 5 5 0 Princeton 2 2 0 3 7 0 Providence 2 1 0 5 3 0 Colby 1 2 1 1 2 1 Harvard...