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...strongest statement that we can make as Americans in the face of a terrorist attack,” said Acting Gov. Jane Swift at a press conference she held at the state’s emergency bunker in Framingham early yesterday afternoon. Swift retreated to the bunker, a remnant of the Cold War era, after yesterday morning’s terrorist attacks planes and buildings down in Washington D.C. and New York City...
...comfortable with the mission, however hedged it is against the prospect of becoming a longterm commitment. After almost six years in Bosnia and more than two in Kosovo, NATO is now present in force in a third remnant of ex-Yugoslavia, one where the firing is live and the very real consequences of a potential escalation would be dire for the entire region. Yet NATO insists that this action is different: it is not a peacekeeping mission, let alone a peacemaking one. The troops, most of them British, come at the invitation of the Macedonian government for a specific...
Feng Xiaogang does not dine on shark's fin or camel's hump. He does not wear Armani tuxes to awards galas or parade around with bejeweled women on each arm. "I am a regular guy," Feng says, his tongue swelling his cheek as it seeks out a remnant of dinner from between his molars. "I just happen to make movies instead of, say, working in a factory...
...other dead white males, Harvard requires one Shakespeare course and two pre-18th century classes of its English concentrators. The weekly Lowell House teas where students sip hot cider and tea and munch on scones, the formal dinners with professors and members of senior common rooms—remnant of an older Harvard—compel us to take time from our busy schedules and private intellectual musings to chat, to remember what it’s like to be civil. Or not so civil—as in relations between The Crimson and a semi-secret Sorrento Square social...
Other minority members are less generous. The hill tribes have a long history of resistance to rule from the lowlands?whether French colonists, the former South Vietnam government or, most recently, the communists. A remnant band of allegedly U.S.-trained ethnic minority rebels known by the French acronym fulro staged raids from across the Cambodian border until the early '90s when they migrated to the United States. Vietnamese authorities are accusing one of the former guerrillas of engineering last month's unrest. Officials in Gia Lai seized documents they say are proof that "reactionary forces" were behind the protests. Signed...