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Meanwhile, other universities in Floyd's path have been affected still more. Duke University cancelled classes yesterday, and Princeton sent home all non-essential personnel at 11 a.m. yesterday, although classes remained in session...
Coming hard on the heels of last weekend?s car-bomb attack that killed scores of people in an apartment block used by Russian military personnel in Dagestan ? and the renewed offensive by Islamic separatists there ? the temptation to link the latest Moscow blast to the turbulence in the Caucasus is strong. But the blast also follows last week?s attack on a games arcade in a shopping mall near the Kremlin, which sparked speculation that a gangland turf battle was involved, or, conversely, that the attack was part of a pattern of provocation by unnamed forces in the corridors...
...available to outside experts. Francis was involved in another controversy last week when he told the Dallas Morning News that Delta Force units--whose existence the Pentagon is loath to confirm--may have taken part in the siege, a violation of the law. The Pentagon conceded that three Army personnel were in Waco on April 19 but only as observers and technical advisers...
Exciting, even revolutionary as B2B promises to be, it will come at a price--one that will be paid largely by the relatively anonymous groups of backroom sales-and-operations personnel who have kept the wheels of commerce humming. If you don't believe it, imagine trying to convince the legions of purchasing-order and sales executives--those who, as part of their current jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side...
...Kosovo Liberation Army, whose campaign for independence was left in limbo after NATO took control of the province, have made the traditionally pro-Serb Russian forces the target of their anger over the past two months. The Russians have been furious both about attacks on their own personnel and over the continuing ethnic cleansing targeted against the province?s dwindling Serb population. "If there?s a concerted attack on the Russian forces in Kosovo now, they?ll likely return fire with interest," says Meier. And while that might be exactly what KLA hard-liners want, it could make the Kosovo...