Word: victors
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Which creased face of age, which inconsolable howl from a child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced evidence of a terrible death that may have befallen 5,000 or more army-age Muslim men in Srebrenica, an eastern Bosnian town conquered by Serbs last month, the U.N. began to document deeds that were perhaps just as appalling, albeit much less extensive, against some Serbs uprooted by Croatian...
America's federal stinginess with the arts and humanities does it immense discredit. By contrast, every candidate in the last French election, from the socialist Lionel Jospin to the conservative victor Jacques Chirac, agreed that fully 1% of France's state budget should be set aside for culture. This will cost each taxpayer about $50 a year and is wholly uncontroversial. Nobody complains in Germany either, though federal cultural subsidies cost each taxpayer $38 and city ones even more: Berlin, for instance, will spend 1.1 billion marks ($800 million) in fiscal 1995, 2.6% of its total municipal budget...
...jobs in May. The month before witnessed the third decline in a row in the index of leading economic indicators, which is used to forecast economic conditions six to nine months from now-when Campaign '96 will be well under way. "This is a pretty sizable slowdown," observes economist Victor Zarnowitz of Columbia University. "In many ways it resembles past slowdowns that have become recessions...
...raid came at a particularly embarrassing moment for the Kremlin. Only hours before the assault began, Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin had claimed that the government had taken measures to prevent terrorist attacks on Russian territory. With security tightened throughout Russia against more Chechen terror, President Boris Yeltsin immediately vowed to do everything possible to free the hostages, denouncing the attack as "unprecedented in cynicism and cruelty." In reality, the Kremlin had few options. It was certainly not prepared to negotiate an end to the Chechen war under such conditions, making a show of force inevitable...
Sophomore Jennifer Fung and her younger brother Victor are the current U.S. amateur champions in the sport...