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...fact that the French have been basically pro-Serb during the fighting, the government has decided that there is not one comma of the Dayton agreement that is going to be changed. Period. And Bachelet was called back to get that message. By now he has so much carpet between his teeth he won't eat for a year." After his tongue-lashing, Bachelet will most likely be sent back to Sarajevo, where he will command a NATO force of about 13,000 troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: C'EST LA GUERRE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...meantime, I've seen several such gangs in the vicinity, but never once a police car or foot patrol--except of course for Yasser Arafat's visit. It is ironic that the one evening I've felt safe since the murder attempt was when Harvard rolled out the red carpet to entertain mass- murderer. Now we learn there was a rape, in early September, in mid-morning. But it was buried, too, as long as possible. Police Chief Johnson insists this is all "nothing to get alarmed about." Maybe if I'd been informed, and alarmed, I'd have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Presence Is Sorely Lacking | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...indulging Arafat's desire for a sounding board from which to advance his nefarious aims, the Kennedy School, and Harvard University by extension, has averted its eyes from his long and disgraceful record of murder and destruction. It should not be considered melodramatic to associate the "red carpet" with which Arafat was welcomed with the blood of the countless thousands of innocent men, women and children whom he and his henchmen have slain in the course of the malicious history of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz and Eric M. Nelson, S | Title: Embracing a Murderer | 10/31/1995 | See Source »

Even considering the high expectations that were placed on her this year, the sophomore's play has been nothing short of amazing. Scoring three goals and assisting on two others in a 7-0 carpet-bombing of Princeton on Sunday, Stauffer tightened her already iron grip on the top rung of the Ivy League scoring ladder...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: ATHLETE of the WEEK | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

More importantly, is there something to be learned by Harvard about games like this? Certainly, a school like Yale won't roll out the red carpet for Harvard to score...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Put Me In, Coach | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

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