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...week had done little to ease the Serbs' tightening vise around the besieged Muslim enclave on the Drina River. By Friday, Serb forces had moved artillery and armored vehicles into the surrounding hills and pounded away at the city of 65,000 civilians with howitzers, mortars and tank cannons. On Saturday afternoon, as Bosnian radio reported fretfully that tanks were rolling through Gorazde and firing into residential areas, NATO dispatched six planes to search for a Serb tank lobbing shells into Gorazde from the city's outskirts. Bad weather forced the planes back, but not before a surface...
...Akashi, who was in the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale trying to resuscitate negotiations, was not willing to approve the request. The next day when the Serbs began encircling Gorazde, Rose and Akashi called for "fairly robust air cover," according to a senior White House official. When a Serb tank fired on a hospital, injuring several people, Rose and Akashi upped their request to "close air support." But when NATO aircraft went in search of targets, bad weather forced the planes to fly low, which in turn resulted in the downing of the British...
Wall Street as the real world is a concept that could raise eyebrows. But some financial experts wonder whether the quants are weakening whatever contact with reality the street may have had. Steve Barnett, an anthropologist who is a principal of Global Business Network, a think tank, says that in the pre-quant days, Wall Street was patriarchal, intuitive, much more related to the world as it was. But hard-core quants, he complains across the generation gap, "are almost idiots savants with numbers . . . There is an almost prayerful communion with the computer. They're intense and operate...
...industries are modernizing swiftly, and the Center of Research for Development, a Mexico City think tank, estimates that 40% of the country's industrial production now meets world standards. Even some smaller companies find they can compete. "I have 22 employees now, and a month ago I had only 12," says Jorge Hernandez Prieto, whose company is rushing to fill an order for scented candles from the Target store chain...
Whether that image is fair or not, there is clearly a physical change in a politician who cemented his power in 1991 by boldly scrambling atop a tank outside the besieged White House. These days Yeltsin appears increasingly lugubrious; the spring is missing from his step when he shuffles down the long red carpet at the Kremlin, and there are embarrassing pauses when he answers off-the-cuff questions. These subtle signs only heighten the sense, already gaining credence in Moscow from Yeltsin's political struggles, that the President is slipping...