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...missing something, resolutely avoids emotional entanglements with women. The other takes the familiar testosterone ride, but from the point of view of a woman who has as a lover a deep-sea diver and then, when he dies, a fighter pilot. A few more open windows are needed to widen the author's world in stories and novels to come. The case of John Irving, droning on about wrestling in book after book, comes drearily to mind, and the hope here is that Jones, a former Marine who was an amateur boxer, has said all, or nearly...
Irregular Serb forces captured and "ethnically cleansed" the center of Brcko of its mainly Muslim population last year. Now they are trying to push south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
...seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they are currently shelling with impunity? Similarly, there is no certainty that the war won't widen in the Balkans anyway, and hardly any chance that the battle will be decisive enough to roll back the Serbs' territorial gains (although a new balance of power could conceivably precipitate serious negotiations). "All of that may be true," says a Clinton adviser, "but at least the President will...
...mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others. There is little enough frank speech on race as things stand. My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicly at Harvard. At present there is a lamentable discrepancy between what is said and thought in private and what can be discussed openly without fear. Professor Harvey C. Mansfield...
...know that Mr. Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others," he wrote. "My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicity at Harvard...