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...impossible for three signatures to numb the memories of decades, centuries, millenia of internecine struggle. Peace can, however, evolve out of stability. We should not force final agreements or accords to those who don't want them, but work towards achieving a world without the terrors of Molotov cocktails, tear gas and fatal rubber bullets...

Author: By Rohan R. Gulrajani, | Title: U.N. Power and the Middle East | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...Authority, established in 1991, has gone on a tear over the past couple of years, thanks to a strong-willed new President and a public that is fed up with rigged markets and insider deals. The insurance crackdown was its biggest to date, but earlier in the summer, the Authority slapped $320 million in penalties on eight oil companies for conspiring to fix gasoline prices. Even earlier, it fined the country's two main cellular-phone operators for setting identical prices for fixed-to-mobile calls. The Authority has even taken on Gorgonzola-cheese producers, forbidding them to set production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trustbuster With Teeth | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

This weekend, take a break from studying or tear yourself away from the Grille to see The Insanity of Mary Girard. I saw the show last weekend at a rehearsal, with no sets, no costumes and before any of the final runs had taken place and still I enjoyed it, although enjoyed may not be quite the word to use for a play that is so disturbing...

Author: By Krisa Benskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soul Asylum | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson (9-10, 1-3 Ivy) has been on a road tear to avenge a grueling five-game loss at Cornell last Friday and has used Columbia and Quinnipiac as its most recent targets for revenge...

Author: By Dan D. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Sweeps Quinnipiac, 3-0 | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...home of Radio Television Serbia. It was not only the regime's crucial mouthpiece--without it Milosevic could not counter the clamor in the streets--but also its most despised tool. A special antiterrorist unit had been set in place to confront any trouble. These troops resisted longer, firing tear gas and a few stray bullets. But when the protesters drew up their excavator and set the entry on fire, overwhelmed troops scooted out the back. The broadcast--the only one seen regularly throughout the country--of an orchestral concert blacked out, as smoke wreathed the tower. Total victory seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of Milosevic | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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