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...American officials seem confident Kostunica would at least aim for stability and search for political solutions to Balkan conflicts rather than excite ethnic terror. They think he is making the right moves during this dicey period, pursuing legal appeals to confirm the vote as well as calling for peaceful civil disobedience to shut the country down and force a reckoning on Milosevic. While Kostunica insists that he won't stand in the regime's planned runoff, he remains reluctant to hand Milosevic an uncontested victory. The U.S. and Europe encouragingly promise to lift economic sanctions on Yugoslavia and dish...
...This shows us what it can take to control the virus," Walker said. "It gives us better perspective so we know what to aim for in creating a vaccine...
...aim is to turn out as many Nader voters as possible, Keaney said, regardless of where they live...
Nobody is suggesting a government body to meddle in popular culture. The real aim here is to intimidate the entertainment companies into reining in themselves, as they did with the bumptious movie-industry Hays office of the 1930s and '40s and the Comics Magazine Association of America, an industry group formed in 1954 after Senate hearings into bloody and smutty comic books. It gave its seal of approval only to comic books that went easy on the cleavage and eye gouging. Most retailers would not sell comics that did not earn the association's seal. The system broke down...
...observed, however, by costume designer Amanda Mujica and scenic designer David J. Miller. Mujica uses just the right tones and styles to contrast the gentleness of characters such as Lang with the sharpness of the lawyers. Miller's set - an arrangement in red, white, and blue - appears to aim at the national overtones of the piece. As the play hurtles towards disaster, the lights dim and only the red remains. It is an ominous and chilling suggestion of the trappings, false ideals, and broken dreams that can hide behind a cheerful, patriotic facade...