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...NATO's fragile construct was designed to avoid answering the question at the heart of this Balkan war: Should Kosovo be an independent state? "The beauty of the interim accord is that no one has to give up their dreams," explains U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. "We've created this gray thing that one side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they can ask for it," Hill adds, "but getting...
...pages of spare description at the outset of the somewhat old-fashioned romantic adventure Charlotte Gray (Random House; 399 pages; $24.95), novelist Sebastian Faulks makes a promise that somewhat old-fashioned readers expect and understand. The brief opening scene takes a Spitfire pilot over Nazi-occupied France on a lone mission and brings him back to his British home field, his fragile plane's tail controls damaged by antiaircraft fire. He makes a ragged landing and climbs out of the cockpit, shaking. A mechanic asks, "How was it, Greg?" He answers, "It was cold...
WHAT'S THE MOST POPULAR apparel at the COOP these days? According to David Sullivan, the store's working manager, both students and tourists prefer a gray Harvard sweatshirt with raised crimson lettering. (Price:$ 49). For some, the sweatshirt sells a dream, the closest they will ever get to living the Harvard experience. For others, it provides a sense of satisfaction, an opportunity to ostentatiously display their superiority. Either way, there's a lot of sweatshirt buying going on. Pointing to a pile near the front of the store, Sullivan explains, "With students, buying Harvard apparel is a tell-tale...
...ultraconservative wing of the Republican Party seems lost. These old gray men are so convinced they're doing the right thing and so obsessed with the idea of trying to let the American people see how evil their President is that they've lost touch with reality. If they can't put their anger aside and forgive Clinton, this impeachment process will eventually result in their own end. FRANS VAN RUMPT Santpoort, the Netherlands...
...design a building like a tree?--a fecund structure that purifies waters and makes oxygen and food," he says. "In Coffee Creek, we asked, What if a town were like a forest?" He envisions the Indiana project as the first step toward creating "a green world with connecting gray zones...