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...Kozarac is not a safe place yet," admitted Milomir Stakic, the new Serbian mayor of Prijedor. He took the place of his democratically elected Muslim predecessor when Serbian forces began brutally "cleansing" the area last spring. His statements were the first confirmation that Muslim guerrillas are operating in the area. "Last night two Serbs were killed and their bodies were burned in Kozarac," he acknowledged. "Groups of Muslim extremists have withdrawn to the Kozara mountains. They could hide there for another six months, even a year...
...interview, Light said he hopes the 1992 report and its 1990 predecessor can lead to specific improvements in the state of undergraduate education. "I think it can play a role," he said...
Education School faculty members said Murphy differs from his predecessor, who stepped down from her Harvard post to lead a chicagobased research foundation...
...view of politics--that it's "weird" and "strange"--contrasts sharply with that of his predecessor. Anthony R. Dolan, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Reagan speechwriter, put that president's philosophy best: "Ideas are the stuff of politics," he said...
...issues, no President's foreign policy is all that different from his predecessor's and neither candidate is calling for radical revision. Americans by and large don't want great swings in the conduct of foreign affairs, which is why a Barry Goldwater or a George McGovern doesn't get elected: the art form rests in reinventing the center...