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...charged with implementing these ideas in Kosovo was General Sreten Lukic, a high-ranking member of the state-security apparat and a personal friend of Milosevic's. Lukic boldly described Horseshoe last fall to Western diplomats as a massive clockwise sweep that would finally crush the K.L.A. Lukic told his visitors he hoped to finish the mission by mid-October. But that plan collapsed when it became apparent that the K.L.A., which had become expert at hiding and fighting in Kosovo's rough hills, wasn't going to cave in easily...
...termed modernization, a better and kinder way of doing things that should be acceptable to everyone. I realize changes of this type generally come with good intentions and can be very positive. We are wiser and more enlightened now and there are times when it is best to sweep away the old habits of 1811. Traditions like the exclusion of women and minorities from full participation in the Harvard community have been rightfully "revised...
...termed modernization, a better and kinder way of doing things that should be acceptable to everyone. I realize changes of this type generally come with good intentions and can be very positive. We are wiser and more enlightened now and there are times when it is best to sweep away the old habits of 1811. Traditions like the exclusion of women and minorities from full participation in the Harvard community have been rightfully "revised...
...skittish lot: they love a winner, hate being left behind, and once a bunch start to go, the rest tend to follow. This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters. The other candidates, still hoping that a surprise breakout in Iowa or New Hampshire would win them enough attention to make up for all the ads they couldn...
...embodiment of the true sportsman, a modest fellow whose noble consideration for his opponents was equaled only by the cruel ease with which he vanquished them. Jones won an unprecedented (and still unmatched) 13 major golf championships in a brief seven years, culminating in his 1930 sweep of all four majors, the only Grand Slam in the game's history. And then, still an amateur and determined to remain one, he retired, at 28. From that day forward, Jones played competitively only once a year--at the tournament he invented on the course he co-designed: the Masters at Augusta...