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...Serbia. In his view, it is neither the thundering artillery of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army nor the process of "ethnic cleansing" of Serbian regions in Croatia and Bosnia that has earned him the world's outrage. "Vested interests are behind this, and of course a very well-organized and well-paid media war," he says. "Today in Europe it is normal for the Vatican or Austria and Germany to support Croats. It's not normal if Serbs are supporting Serbs." This is the same sense of grievance that makes many Serbs portray themselves as victims encircled by foreign enemies...
...urban areas has been drastically cut even as AIDS, drugs and homelessness strained social-welfare systems to the breaking point. The racial climate has worsened because of white fears of black criminals and disputes over affirmative action. Beyond that are large social and economic trends: the loss of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that gave many blacks their first step up the economic ladder, and the flight from the inner city to the suburbs of both black and white middle-class families, leaving behind ever more concentrated populations of the desperately poor...
...drug cartels "had a lot of extra money, but were social outcasts," Santos said. Buying into the popular but unprofitable teams and transforming them into well-paid, power-packed World Cup Contenders was a way of obtaining "respectability and immediate popularity...
...complained that $11,000 was pricy for a tuition, but $47,000 for a cable hook-up in the gym of the Business School? Who are they kidding? That amount alone could be a before-tax salary of any number of well-paid jobs or finance desperately needed teaching fellows and tutors in financially poor College departments. More dramatically, it would pay tuition and expenses for two years for a student not on financial...
Kaplan, now a well-paid attorney in New York,said it was "a sad, sad day" for him but expressedhope that The Crimson's new magazine wouldprosper...