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NATO and Serbia are fighting very different wars. While NATO was attempting to grind down Belgrade's air defenses, Milosevic was fighting the only war he really cares about. He refused to fire spasms of SAMs into the swarming skies over Yugoslavia. That kept NATO's low-and-slow tank- and troop-killing warplanes away and confined vaunted alliance firepower to Everest-high altitudes. In Belgrade government officials chortled that the damage to their air-defense systems was "minimal" despite a NATO expenditure of "230 grams of high explosives per head" of every Yugoslav. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia's well-armed infantry...
...even higher. Tacitly acknowledging their predicament, the allies--especially the U.S., which is flying more than 80% of the attack missions--are hurling more firepower at Yugoslavia. B-1 Lancers are letting go with 500-pounders and the Combined Effects Munition, a particularly macabre bomb filled with 202 tank-busting, flesh-shredding bomblets that can turn acres of land into plowed fields. B-2s, flying 31-hour round trips from Missouri, are dropping more discriminating satellite-guided bombs across wide areas of Serbian-held territory...
...evil. We have been taught that to infiltrate the ranks of chauvinist men, women must be like them. The pursuit of beauty, which separated (and still separates) the sexes, now means selling out. Which leads to Confession 2: I like to look pretty. I gleefully wear short skirts and tank tops, the blow-dryer and lash curler are my friends and I spend way too much time on my cuticles. I ve even planned ahead: I religiously apply eye creme and sunscreen so that at 35, I won t look, uh, 35. I guess I m just not ballsy enough...
During a 1996 speech at the American EnterpriseInstitute, a Washington-based think tank,Greenspan asked his audience whether stock marketgains might have been due to "irrationalexuberance." The next morning, markets tumbledworld-wide, with the Dow Jones industrial averagefalling 140 points before recovering...
...Village Idiot, 355 W. 14th St. between 8th and 9th Streets (989-7334): If you're too squeamish to slurp down your own goldfish at this rowdy honky-tonk, you can feed it to the snapping turtles in the tank...