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...question of dividing land, one problem predominates. "You can sum up the big territorial dispute now in three words," says a Pentagon official. "Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo." Having maintained the capital through more than three years of siege, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic wants it to be unified under Bosnian control, while the Bosnian Serbs in Milosevic's delegation want it split between the Muslim-Croat alliance and themselves. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the leader of the talks, last week pushed an American proposal to make Sarajevo a separate "federal city" outside the territory of either faction and under...
Council members said last night that they are no longer worried refunding the entire sum would hurt the council's finances...
With Seles, Barbara lobs the first one in: "If you could sum up this year in one word, what would it be?" The interview goes smoothly, with Walters only occasionally referring to her trademark index cards. But because Seles arrived late, some New York City rush-hour-traffic noise creeps onto the tape and forces the crew to repeat one series of questions...
...WALTERS COULD SUM UP THIS year in one word, what would it be? "Busy." In person, she is as gracious and attentive as she is on the tube. But she is also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went...
...number of downsides to this phenomenon. One is that some audiences--primarily older folks, younger children and minorities--are being ignored. Another is that some series--the late Northern Exposure, for example--end up choking on their own quirky intelligence, crowded with characters who are less than the sum of their arbitrary tics. A third drawback is that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline...