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...Canadians did not reoccupy the checkpoint, but the U.N. was determined to play down the ordeal. "This is a minor incident," said Major Idesbald van Biesebroeck, spokesman for the United Nations Protection Force in Sarajevo. Only in Bosnia, where 10,000 peacekeepers walk the thin line between being humanitarians and combatants, could such treatment of U.N. troops be considered a minor incident. "Repetition creates a sense of ordinariness," said Petrokilis. "Of course, what the Bosnian Serbs did here was inexcusable. But similar things happen all the time on all sides -- just pick your belligerent...
...panel of federal judges ruled that the Louisiana state legislature went too far when it tried to create a second black-majority congressional district after the 1990 census. In the judges' view the resulting district, which zigzags in a thin line for 600 miles along the state's northern and eastern borders, was the product of impermissible racial gerrymandering. Now the map must be redrawn before the state's 1994 elections...
...need only look at the final painting in the show, finished just last month (too late for the catalog): Evening in the Studio. It shows the inside of the artist's London workplace, a medium-size and undistinguished room with blotched walls. There is an iron bed on whose thin, lumpy mattress a whippet sleeps. Next to the bed is a scrawny- looking girl with an angular face, sewing an ornate piece of Indian cotton whose green and red whorls cascade over her lap like the tendrils of an exotic plant, out of place in the drab surroundings...
...diet doctor insists you can eat, drink and be thin...
Brown, as the murdress Charlotte Corday, sings in a well-characterized, luxuriously deep voice that is coated in a thin, hard shell of insanity. It is through her masterfully tortured expression that we see the horror of the Revolution in all of its slaughter and inhumanity She asks, "Who is judging?" and at once we see that she has removed herself from the scene, and sees beyond the confines of Charenton...