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...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony reflects on the numbing cruelties of civil war, a "domestic fury" so dreadful "that mothers shall but smile when they behold/Their infants quartered.../All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted...
...from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to be executed for his political beliefs. Detractors, on the other hand, have sought to silence him temporarily--and permanently. After his book came out, Faulkner's widow hired a plane to fly a banner proclaiming that publisher "Addison-Wesley supports convicted cop killer." The Fraternal Order of Police...
...Agency unwrapped one of its oldest secrets -- Project Venona, a World War II code-breaking effort that cracked Soviet cables and revealed the existence of an extensive spy network in the U.S. to steal classified nuclear information. Among the members of the Soviet ring apparently identified in the cables: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose execution for espionage in 1953 has been the subject of endless investigation and debate...
...DIED. JULIUS HEMPHILL, 57, jazz saxophonist and composer; of complications from diabetes; in New York City. As a soloist, Hemphill offered a steel-edged, intense tone; as a composer, he reveled in the provocative. His work for the World Saxophone Quartet featured a reedy thicket of sax sound, freely drawing on musical forms from gospel to big band to cool jazz to blues...
Ultimately, many airlines would be happy to eliminate tickets altogether. "This is definitely part of a trend to reduce passengers' reliance on travel agents and ticketing," says Julius Maldutis, who follows the airline industry for Salomon Brothers. Valujet, a profitable 16-month-old Atlanta carrier that mostly plies the Southeast, has never issued tickets; travelers get confirmation numbers that they use to pick up boarding passes at airports. Southwest Airlines began offering all passengers the option of ticketless service this month. Even giants like United and Delta are testing similar systems. "As Delta becomes more competitive," says vice president Vincent...