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...denouement was accelerated by inspired diplomacy that paired the sympathetic Russian Chernomyrdin with the neutral Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari. Chernomyrdin had had no luck penetrating the complex, impulsive, stubborn character of the Serbian leader. But he concluded that you could, eventually, do a deal with Milosevic if you could help him save face. Early in May, at breakfast with Vice President Al Gore and Albright, Chernomyrdin suggested he needed a negotiating partner with stature in Europe but no connections to NATO. "If I have someone from the West with me, I have a better chance of getting this done...
...fifth row--the first row of the "Colored Section." The driver was the same one who had put her off a bus 12 years earlier for refusing to get off and reboard through the back door. ("He was still mean-looking," she has said.) Did that make her stubborn? Or had her work in the N.A.A.C.P. sharpened her sensibilities so that she knew what to do--or more precisely, what not to do: Don't frown, don't struggle, don't shout, don't pay the fine...
Mount Everest is being stubborn about revealing its secrets. The international expedition which set out to find the remains of George Mallory, the Briton who 75 years ago died in his attempt to be first to climb the world?s highest mountain, has returned from its search -- and is split about whether Mallory succeeded. Although the team did find the explorer?s frozen remains in the snow -- including several letters, goggles, and other personal effects -- they did not find the body of his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, nor the object they dearly hoped to find: a Kodak camera, which might...
Hasek is also stubborn. In 1989, playing for Czech's army team, he refused to skate during a key game against his hometown's team. In Buffalo he's already legend enough that the Marine Midland Arena, where the Sabres skate, is flanked by two gargoyle goalies splayed apart in a way that only the double-jointed Hasek can manage. Still, he was booed at the beginning of last year because he schemed to dump the team's popular coach. Last May he sat in his Jeep making calls as 1,500 fans--many of them children...
Countryman was exactly what his name suggested: a native of Roundup, Mont., where his father was sheriff, Countryman was a "Westerner," who, in the midst of student unrest at Harvard, once compared the University to a stubborn mule...