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...reluctance to risk pilots' lives--kept them from hitting at Milosevic as hard as they wished. And diplomats complained that the limp military effort wasn't bringing the Serbs to heel fast enough. "You want to know the truth?" asked a senior State Department official who had urged a tougher assault against Milosevic. "We don't think we've accomplished anything." That frustration, in part, led NATO to speed up the pace of its bombing, to launch a precision cruise-missile attack that set key ministries in the heart of Belgrade aflame Saturday morning, to plan a massive pounding over...
...such mission, especially when its goals seemed vague. Now it is obvious that NATO could not have built up such a force before Milosevic had gobbled up Kosovo. And sending in ground forces in the face of Serb resistance would be bloody. Mountainous Balkan terrain makes for tougher fighting than Iraq's wide open deserts; Serbs would hold the high ground, including passes too narrow for tanks; mines salt the few roads and bridges. Such pitfalls loom large for officers who came of age in Vietnam. "Part of contingency planning," a Pentagon colonel says, "is looking at options and ruling...
Both Harvard and Cornell have survived one of the tougher teams in the Ancient Eight--Penn, which was ranked No. 15 before losing to the conference's three currently-ranked teams. The Crimson needed overtime and five goals from Buttles to defeat the Quakers, 8-7, at Ohiri Field two weeks ago Saturday and the Big Red outlasted the Quakers, 10-9, at Schoellkopf a week later...
...tougher state mandates began in 1993, after an intense battle with teachers' unions and education lobbyists, when state legislators passed a comprehensive educational reform bill. The bill essentially made school committees more accountable for the performance of schools in their districts, giving them added autonomy--and responsibility--in this area...
...This was one of the lowest points of the year for us in terms of playing," freshman outside hitter Paul Guilianelli said. "It was tougher for us to focus when you're out on vacation, spending the day at the beach and then focusing on your play at night. We also had some really tough competition, especially against Sacramento State and Cal Baptist...