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...compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three-way peace talks, refereed by the U.S., kick off Oct. 31 in Dayton, Ohio. While those negotiations promise to be rancorous, the Presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia are eventually expected to emerge from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with an agreement. And soon thereafter, 20,000 U.S. soldiers will be en route to blood-soaked Bosnia...
...opportunity to learn," said Bill Wright-Swadel, Director of OCS. "[Students] can learn what [the corporations] are doing, what the field is like, what specific opportunities they are looking for Harvard people to fill...
Christopher announced today that the Bosnia peace talks will be held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, starting on October 31. TIME's Douglas Waller reports that the State Department sought a large facility that has roughly equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very...
...them the vote; their number in the House of Representatives is close to their proportion of the population; the black middle class has grown so large that it constitutes nearly a third of black families; African Americans of stature and achievement are everywhere in sight (see Colin Powell; Marian Wright Edelman; Ruth Simmons, the new president of Smith College; and Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran...
...someone locked in one room of a big house: "If you never go into that room, you don't know anything about [it]. If I come out of that room to clean many other things in the rest of the house, then I know about the whole house." Richard Wright said that the "Negro is America's metaphor." The idea is that black people, merely by existing, hold up a mirror to white America, in which it may see itself darkly...