Now, Why Can't The Serbs And Kosovars Do This?

By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Daniel Levy, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

It must be Valentine's day. Last week was, if not a lovefest, certainly a time of great healing and reconciliation.

--MEDICAL FRONT: After irate medical professionals objected to the decision to fire George Lundberg, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the A.M.A. said it would allow Lundberg to contribute articles. The editor and the beleaguered organization released a joint statement saying they had "resolved substantive differences."

--POLITICAL FRONT: "I believe I acted too hastily," said Washington Mayor Anthony Williams of his decision to accept the resignation of David Howard, an aide who had offended some colleagues by using the term niggardly. Howard agreed to return to the administration in another, yet-to-be-announced position.

--TABLOID FRONT: Amy Fisher's father reached out to Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the woman Amy shot in 1992 and the wife of Amy's onetime amour, Joey Buttafuoco. In an interview in the New York Post, Mr. Fisher pleaded for "compassion" from Mary Jo. Dominic Barbara, a lawyer for Joey, revealed that in July, Amy's mom and Mary Jo met for seven hours: "I'd use the word heroic for the way these two women treated each other."