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...Milosevic's hard line has radicalized the Kosovar population, eroding support for moderate leader Ibrahim Rugova and -- to the consternation of the West -- boosting the ranks of the armed guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "The more Serb forces attack civilians, the weaker Rugova's position becomes," says Calabresi. Rugova today refused Milosevic's offer of talks, demanding Serb withdrawal as a precondition. But even that, says Calabresi, may not be enough: "Troop withdrawal wouldn't mean much unless Milosevic was prepared to make significant concessions on the political status of Kosovo" -- a notion that sticks in the craw...
...often divinely lighthearted member of an endangered species, entitled to any means of defense he can devise. Faced with a frequently malign universe, he can never quite bring himself to choose between his pleasure in the improvisatory shifts of strategic retreat and his impulse to love some creature palpably weaker and more threatened than himself...
There is something poetic in Harvard's .500 record, an indicator of precisely how inconsistent this team was all season. At times they could hit with some of the best teams in the nation; at others, they were unable to execute against weaker opposition...
...Harvard proved soon thereafter that when it played to its potential, weaker opponents need not apply. The Crimson rebounded from back-to-back losses to Southampton and NYU by cleaning up at the Vassar-hosted Burgundy and Grey Invitational Tournament...
After a couple of easy wins against unequivocally weaker teams Sacred Heart and MIT, Harvard prepared for its annual trip to California to tackle some of the nation's best programs...