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Classiness can't be coerced. If we don't like a player's celebratory gyrations, we should resort to the fan's traditional outlets. We should refrain from buying his jersey. We should whine. We should boo. Who knows? Maybe the players will listen...
Operation Allied Force was this sort of campaign, undertaken as a last resort in pursuit of human rights and regional stability. NATO acted reluctantly against a government perpetrating a great wrong against its own people. The conflict reflected, at least on the allied side, all the inhibitions of two centuries of effort to limit warfare as well as a growing spirit of international community. As a French pilot remarked during the operation, "We don't want to bomb these bridges over the Danube or hurt the Serb people. They are our European brothers. And who will have...
...extracted from those in bankruptcy. Some people unquestionably use bankruptcy court to escape bills they could afford to pay, but their numbers are insignificant. The vast majority of bankruptcy filers have neither the income nor the assets to pay creditors. Most turn to bankruptcy as a last resort...
...meets me at sunset on the Namotu resort patio, decked with torches and stone idols, which lend our sit-down an odd Polynesian-honeymoon quality. "All the great stories are about our battle with loneliness," Hanks once said. "That's what I always end up being drawn toward." But, I suggest to him, it's more than that; it's a specific, homesick subgenre of loneliness. Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Hanks' man-children in Forrest Gump and Big and even Toy Story--all share one universally sympathetic struggle: fate blows them off course...
Without doubt, troops should be used as a last resort to solve international conflicts, especially if the United States is not involved. However, whether we like it or not, the United States is part of a global community, and we therefore have a responsibility to participate in an international effort to maintain peace. It is a sad statement to the world when the only troops maintaining peace are from India or other African nations. We are sending a clear message to the world that we do not care about the welfare of the people of Africa...