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...long ago, the scenes of unrest would have inspired fears of the kind of ethnic violence that devastated the Balkans in the '90s. But these are different times. Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders have belatedly tried to extend an olive branch to the province's aggrieved 120,000 Serbs. In addition to allowing Serbs in northern Kosovo to have their own police, schools and hospitals, Kosovo's new Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, did the unthinkable: he delivered part of his inauguration speech in the hated Serbian language. Even in Serbia, whose citizens feel genuine humiliation over losing Kosovo (which Serb...
...stuff. The mud has buried 12 villages, displaced around 16,000 people and caused more than a dozen deaths. Porong hasn't just been destroyed; it has been erased. Where Mudakir's house once stood, there is now a vast, gurgling expanse, with only the occasional protruding tree branch or rooftop to suggest the landscape entombed beneath...
...Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein said.But not everyone welcomed the FCC. A number of people gathered outside of the hearing in protest, condemning what they felt was the FCC’s discrimination against minority media ownership. Members of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, the Boston branch of the NAACP, and the National Black Chamber of Commerce held a press conference outside the building, beneath a bright yellow banner reading “Stop the FCC’s War on Diversity.” “We’re deeply concerned about any policy that can decrease...
...which targeted its $3 billion at stem cell research and other biomedical initiatives. In California, however, legal and logistical difficulties slowed the distribution of funds, and opposition of publicly funded stem cell research stalled allocation. Massachusetts, however, should not experience this same public opposition to funding this branch of controversial research because of its more consistently liberal political constituencies. If the state takes advantage of its current strengths in the biomedical field, it should not experience the same delays that California did. The thriving of biotechnology in Cambridge’s own Kendall Square is one such example...
...rise of the conservative movement, beginning with the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982 and not ending until the close of the judicial term last June. In his book, Toobin makes the point that the Supreme Court is as much at the mercy of politics as any other branch of government, no matter how much anyone wants to believe that the Justices are above the fray.“Occasionally during Supreme Court nominations senators will say, ‘This is just about competence.’ No, it’s not about competence...