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...that with the Serb troops out of Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous. In the German-held sector, returning Kosovar Albanians are torching Serb homes. And Serb civilians...
...sunrise be sipping coffee in Italy--and praising the Lord for helping him find the ejection handle. Stunningly, in a war that NATO believes killed some 5,000 Yugoslavs, not a single allied pilot died. Western military technology finally seemed to have transformed war into a push-button exercise. And it is on exactly this point that debate is beginning...
...feel honored that I am able to speak with my tie and my button-up shirt," he told the Faculty...
...where he is free to imagine things that are two degrees beyond plausible. But, you soon realize, the culture's capacity for cheesiness is so vast that everything he imagines could, and probably will, happen. "Push TV," for instance, which can't be turned off: "Pressing the off button only switches the set to a low-power mode, during which advertising copy appears noiselessly on the screen." Or a network's "Seamlessness Initiative": the characters in each show connect to the characters on all the other shows, so that "the star of the afternoon soap opera The Naked...
...they want," says Dickerson. But their decision is unlikely to sideline the issue for good -- the GOP has found it to be a rallying point among its supporters. "Republicans believe it works better than prayers in the schools or abortion," says Dickerson. "It?s a nice safe hot-button issue that can activate a lot of suburban voters...