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...also unlikely to be handed over by the Serbs, despite the NATO members' vow to deny all economic assistance to Yugoslavia until Milosevic is ousted from power. "The vast majority of Serbs regard the Hague Tribunal as just another vehicle of NATO," says Anastasijevic. "Even the most liberal elements on the Serbian political scene think indicting Milosevic was a bad idea, because it gives him further incentive to use any means available to stay in power." In Hollywood, of course, that?s a perfect setup for a sequel...
...family's hands between 1966 and last year. Evidence indicates that Suharto and his six children still have a conservatively estimated $15 billion in cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art. The treasure was accumulated over three decades from a skein of companies and monopolies dominating vast sectors of the country's economic activity--from oil exports to incoming Mecca pilgrims--and from the Suhartos' interests in some 13,900 sq. mi. of Indonesian property, an area the size of Belgium...
...FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEEMathew MaclnnisCrimsonSource: Foundation Web siteThe Harvard Foundation for Race andIntercultural Relations is governed by student andfaculty advisory committees. The vast majority ofthe Foundation's faculty are not scholars in raceor ethnicity.Ali S. A. AsaniProfessor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languagesand CulturesJorge I. DominguezDirector of the Weatherhead Center forInterational AffairsDavid L. EvansSenior Admissions Officer, Office of AdmissionsWilliam M. GelbartProfessor of Molecular and Cellular BiologyJ. Woodland HastingsMangelsdorf Professor of Natural SciencesLeo Ou-Fan LeeProfessor of Chinese LiteratureKarel F. LiemBigelow Professor of Ichthyology and Dunster HouseMasterJames J. McCarthyAgassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography,Pforzheimer House MasterMichael ShinagelDean of Continuing Education...
Most of us in the vast middle between critic and nut probably won't get around to seeing it for a little while. We've been warned about Jar Jar Binks, and about the fact there's too much computer animation and not enough Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson. We're a little leery of Liam Neeson's hair (not digitized; they're real extensions). We know it can't be all bad, but we don't want to tromp all the way to the multi-prestidigiplex to get squeezed out by a bunch of geeks dressed up like...
Andersen wisely sets his satire in the Tomorrowland of the year 2000, where he is free to imagine things that are two degrees beyond plausible. But, you soon realize, the culture's capacity for cheesiness is so vast that everything he imagines could, and probably will, happen. "Push TV," for instance, which can't be turned off: "Pressing the off button only switches the set to a low-power mode, during which advertising copy appears noiselessly on the screen." Or a network's "Seamlessness Initiative": the characters in each show connect to the characters on all the other shows...