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...write off Kosovo as just another Balkan bloodletting. But if the U.S. is to take seriously its credo of humanitarian intervention, politicians and the public need to understand how and why people in the supposedly civilized world fall prey to animal violence. Kosovo has bred fresh hatreds that will lie unresolved beneath every political and social change the West tries to make in this corner of Europe. And we are faced once again this century with the tasks of assigning individual blame for horrors committed in the name of national policy, and determining how best to bring the guilty...
...suggest you read the Handbook for Students a little more carefully.) But for those few, academics are their niche. They are perfectly happy, but they're not the only ones. There is so much else to do here that after a while, you'll see where your priorities lie and you won't want to spend the time studying that it takes to banish those B's (or C's as the case...
...plan is to work. The two-page, 10-point agreement left key issues unresolved, including sensitive questions of command. For weeks Moscow not only insisted on participating in the peace force but tried to place its troops in charge of Kosovo's northern quadrant, where many Serbian holy sites lie. Washington refused for fear that would effectively partition the province. Now the diplomats are wrangling over just what role the Russian troops will play and who will command them. Russia's proud military men oppose the settlement, making it harder for Moscow's troops to be tucked comfortably under NATO...
...only natural for people suffering such disturbing thoughts at dawn to scramble around in their minds for some reassuring arguments on the other side. As the Powers in the Democratic Party lie in bed, they take comfort in the fact that Gore does not seem to have assumed any of Mondale's mannerisms. Then it occurs to them that as Walter Mondale himself might acknowledge during a characteristically self-deprecating moment, he is a Minnesota Norwegian, and Minnesota Norwegians don't exactly have mannerisms. They tend to associate mannerisms with Swedes and other showy types...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early '60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali--Cassius Clay, in those days--appeared on the scene. "Just when the sweet science appears to lie like a painted ship upon a painted ocean," wrote A.J. Liebling, "a new Hero...comes along like a Moran tug to pull it out of the ocean...