(copyright 1999 Microsoft) today's papers Gore-y Details By Scott Shuger >... some of the fronts [of US major newspapers] feature pictures of President Clinton meeting with Kosovar refugees in a German camp, ... Today's Papers is not too cynical to be untouched by Clinton's advice, to some of the refugees whose harrowing experiences he heard about: "Don't let yourself be broken by this. Find a way to be glad that the sun comes up in the morning and that you have the people around you you do." On the other hand, there is a cynical question floating behind all this, one that TP has not seen addressed in the press: For all the horrible tales of houses set aflame, people raped or shot in front of their families, of people having their legs cut off, how is it that not one video, not one snapshot has made its way to the Western press? True, the Serbs would strenuously strive to prevent this, but you would think that with 800,000 refugees, at least one sock in at least one boot would convey one irrefutable demonstration that Milosevic and the Serbs are what the conventional wisdom holds them to be. < >... The WP [Washington Post] editorial page has two pretty strong efforts regarding Sudan. The first makes the case that it's imperative for the U.S. to redouble its diplomatic efforts to try to bring an end to the civil war there, a conflict that, the editorial points out, has killed more people than the conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Algeria *combined.* The second says it now seems that the U.S. government was badly mistaken in thinking that the pharmaceutical plant it destroyed last summer was making nerve gas for Osama bin Laden. But neither of these is the paper's lead editorial. That honor goes to the prose addressing another, apparently more serious, question: what can be done to make the NBA [National Basketball Association] exciting again? < Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!