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The Lost Olympics
Few of our predilections seem more distinctly modern than the compulsion to name “our era” and thereby claim it.
November 2, 2000
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Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly
In foreign affairs, folly is the privilege of great powers, for they alone can be certain to survive it. Last month Americans embarked on a policy of exquisite folly: funding both sides of Colombia’s civil war.
October 5, 2000
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The Shame of Political TV
Like ill-matched partners in a bad marriage, American politics and American television seem bound inextricably together, unable to escape a relationship that increasingly degrades both partners.
September 2, 2000
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Long Memories: Srebrenica, A Cry From the Grave
Striding triumphantly down the streets of conquered Srebrenica, General Ratko Mladic announced to a television interviewer that “on this great Serb holy day,” commemorating “the uprising against the Turks, the time
January 1, 2000
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Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory
Carried forward amid an ocean of cheering refugees in the Stankovic refugee camp, Madeleine Albright could hardly contain her excitement. “We have been victorious,” the secretary of state shouted triumphantly to the roaring crowds, “and Milosevic has lost!”
July 15, 1999
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Endgame in Kosovo
Across this near-exhausted century, imagery recurs. The knock at the door, the forced march, the mass evacuation – expressions now impossible to hear without their attendant echoes.
May 6, 1999
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Members of the Club
Six decades ago, in a classroom at Groton, a young man rose slowly to his feet, gazed down at a sheaf of papers in his hand, and began to read.
April 4, 1999
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Operation Storm
Standing motionless among their hulking war machines like statues in the dark, 200,000 Croat soldiers dropped their cigarettes, then clambered into tanks and trucks and armored personnel carriers and, in a sudden earsplitting eruption of grating gears, pushed forward into Serb-held Krajina.
October 22, 1998
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Bosnien: Warum Der Westen Zuschaute
Im Juli 1995, während die Menschen in Europa und Amerika Fe- rien machten, wurden in einer kleinen Stadt in Ostbosnien Hunderte von Muslimen mit verbundenen Augen auf Lastwagen und in Busse geladen.
September 26, 1998
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In the Killing Fields of Bosnia
Only now, more than three years after he recorded the interview with CNN’s World Report, can one see subtle signs of Richard Holbrooke’s discomfort and unease
September 9, 1998
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Slouching Towards Dayton
Near the lovely North Portico of the White House, on a mild and breezy evening in mid-June 1995, the President and First Lady danced alone.
April 23, 1998
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The Horrors of a Camp Called Omarska
To the hundreds of millions who first beheld them on their television screens that August day in 1992, the faces staring out from behind barbed wire seemed powerfully familiar.
April 12, 1998