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Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, next week opens the prosecution of seven men suspected of the murder of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim inhabitants of the town of Srebrenica in 1995. She met Time's Andrew Purvis at her offices in the Dutch city of the Hague and discussed the frustrations of her work, the hunt for Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and the war in Iraq. After 13 years, the U.N. war-crimes tribunal is nearing the end of its work. Has it been worth it? Definitely...
...compulsive gambler out of cash, we’ll wish we had one more chip to play, convinced our next move will be the one that hits the jackpot. Never complacent, we cannot concede victory, and so we look, indefatigably, for the next bus or plane out of town, chasing some existential moment we probably won’t realize and secretly hope never comes.William C. Marra ’07, president of The Crimson, is a government concentrator in Currier House. Despite its best efforts, the Crimson editorial board could only keep him off its page for so long...
...March. Three student lacrosse players have been charged with raping a woman at a raunchy team party, costing the team its season, and the university a hit to its prestigious image. Where was Coach K, in title a special assistant to the president, the most visible man in town...
...attended his concert at Philadelphia's Town Hall. It would be his last performance in my town except for three appearances at Central Magistrates Court after a drug bust. (Prescription drugs; he was acquitted.) And in 1964 I drove up to New York to see his Easter weekend stint at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East). Four shows, all 11,000 tickets sold; I caught the late show, midnight, on Saturday. He did plenty of material about his legal vexations, but Lenny was still a spieler who could mesmerize his audience for two hours plus ? a great gig. (There...
Here's the situation: You're in a strange city, you've ditched the rental car, and you want to walk around town, check out museums, restaurants and maybe do some shopping. The catch is, you hate looking like a tourist with a giant paper map. Pioneer's AVIC-S1 is one of the first GPS navigators with a "pedestrian" setting. In addition to telling you what interstate exit to take, it plots a path for you along boulevards and side streets, keeping in mind that your walking pace may only be two or three miles per hour...