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Manojlovic has been taking extreme risks. She is one of a growing number of young Serbs--30,000 by the latest estimates--who have joined the movement known as Otpor, Serbian for resistance. Virtually unknown until a few months ago, the group is generating as much anti-Milosevic heat as anything since the end of the NATO campaign a year ago. Otpor has few leaders, relying instead on an informal web of student connections. And unlike the country's traditional opposition groups, which spend more time jockeying for power than pushing for change, Otpor has no political ambitions, according...
...deal is going to be hatched, they know that Washington will have to broker it. And both men believe that Clinton is the best arbiter they've had in these talks. The incoming president - no matter if he's George W. Bush or Al Gore - are both unknown quantities and it will take them months to get up to speed on the Middle East. Fail to reach a treaty now, and the window will be closed for a long time...
...proponent of a radical new theory of social choice, about to win a Nobel Prize in economics; John Rawls, Conant University professor emeritus, was an established philosophy professor about to publish his monumental work A Theory of Justice and the third professor--Amartya Kumar Sen--was, well, "some unknown...
...comparison to Fineberg with his University-wide role, Clark is an unknown commodity to much of the Harvard community. Ensconced in the carefully manicured campus across the river, he runs a school long known for its independence from the larger University...
...faced unknown dangers if I left, I faced known dangers if I stayed," Grove said of the experience. "When I realized that it was riskier to stay because of the downside, I started on my journey...