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...picture is worth a thousand words, I must have an album by now: so many words, conversations, flowing together; though I'm not sure yet into what kind of coherent picture. The summer after junior year is a strange one, to be sure. The future is nipping impatiently at everyone, questions hovering. Yet somehow July seems to suspend the impendingness of it all. Cambridge lifts itself into a lull of the present--fascinating, at once demanding and infinitely postponable. Nothing becomes more certain; the uncertainties simply become more apparent with time. More apparent, and less troubling, ultimately. Nothing's changed...
...some peanuts and cracker jack," baseball fans sing during the seventh-inning stretch. "I don't care if I never get back." As the song goes on, several thousand of them immediately demonstrate that they did not mean those words by streaming for the exits--even if the outcome is in doubt...
...bring the rebels to heel. Since March, when the Yugoslav army began an offensive against the guerrillas known as the Kosovo Liberation Army, about 300 people have died and an estimated 65,000 have been driven from their homes. When Holbrooke arrives, 50,000 Serb forces and several thousand K.L.A. fighters are skirmishing all over the province, targeting civilians in one another's villages...
...discouraged, Holbrooke has stayed up all night, phoning diplomats in Kosovo and officials at the State Department, the U.N. and NATO headquarters. He is concerned that the next Balkan war could start at Kijevo, a village so tiny that it's not even on the map. A few thousand Albanians, 80 Serb families and 250 Serb military police are surrounded by K.L.A. checkpoints. But no one there is able to tear down the K.L.A. barricades. Ambassador Hill will return this week to try to get the checkpoints cleared, and U.S. Envoy to the Balkans Robert Gelbard will continue to work...
...meal plan would be economically beneficial to students. Given the amount charged for room and board, if the administration allowed a 14 or even seven meal a week plan, it seems logical that they could thereby cut room and board by at least one and maybe even two thousand dollars. Considering that many students make that much money over the summer, it would be a small but thoughtful concession...