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VINCE LOMBARDI He was the essence of coach, this gruff, gap-toothed tyrant-with-a-heart-of-gold who forged championships--five in seven seasons--not from brilliant constellations of X's and O's but from his total commitment to the concept of a team. The Packers "didn't do it for individual glory," Lombardi once said. "They did it because they loved one another." Maybe so--but Green Bay lineman Jerry Kramer saw it differently: "The difference between being a good football team and a great football team," he wrote of Lombardi, "was only...
...comes as no surprise that since the bombing our already delicate relations with China have been severely strained. Thousands of protestors have mobbed the U.S. embassy in Beijing; the Chinese have come to regard Milosevic as a hero, President Clinton as a tyrant and NATO as an aggressor...
...safe return of our military personnel, Jackson's mission has attracted a hail of criticism. He made his trip against the express objections of the Clinton administration, and his conference with Milosevic has been described as a self-serving publicity stunt that recklessly imparted legitimacy to an unrepentant tyrant. Of course, this is not the first time that Jackson has exploited the American public's sentimentality at the expense of our larger foreign policy...
...have a national interest in Kosovo,"Grossman countered. "America stands for something.There are big multinational corporations in Russiaand other countries that the IMF bails out, and wegive [the IMF] a lot of money. But when it's avicious tyrant going willy-nilly on the people ofSerbia, why don't we care...
Like Clinton and others have said, Milosevic is a savage tyrant. He has ascended to dominance in the Balkans in tumultuous times and added to the tumult with his zealous appeals to Serbian nationalism and his ethnic cleansing. It is because he has such a history of belligerence that the U.S. should realize that he will fight until it forces him to stop fighting. The U.S. needs to terrify him into submission with a swift, assertive show of power. The U.S. needs to fight directly and in-person, stopping his savagery with the savageries...