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What Bosnia shows is not the inherent incompetence or uselessness of the U.N., but rather more like what happens when the rider gets off a tractor and leaves the machine to drive on its own: it goes around in circles. And the member states have not taken the opportunity to fit it with an auto-pilot. They have passed up several opportunities to grant the U.N. a real military capability, a reform that might have allowed it to actually do what should be done in Bosnia...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: The U.N. Excuse | 12/7/1994 | See Source »

Fortunately, such anger and fear are rare on either side of the Rio Grande. Not only is Perot's warning about American jobs vanishing south with a "giant sucking sound" not coming true, but thousands of tractor-trailer rigs are rumbling through the border crossings -- carrying beer, heavy machinery, clothing, electronics. Eight months after NAFTA went into effect, trade is up, prices are down for consumers and no massive layoffs have occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ross Perot, That Sound You Hear Is Nafta Making Money | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Though he likes to swim and is addicted to C-SPAN, Panetta stays close to his hardscrabble roots -- literally. He tries to get back to California twice a month, where his idea of relaxing is to climb onto his Ford tractor and work the ground on his family's 11-acre walnut ranch in the Carmel Valley. "He gets unspeakably cranky if he doesn't get back regularly," said an associate, who joked that aides have taken up inner-office collections for airfare when Panetta has been in Washington too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding the President | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...lane residential street, and tractor trailers that come every day are killing it," Dooley said...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Noise Annoys Residents Near Divinity School | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

John C. Ausiello is a crimson staff writer. And if you think his views on the Winter Olympics are a little offbeat, you probably don't want to know how much he loves tractor pulls and professional wrestling...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Winter Games | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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