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...Yugoslav Albanians consider Kosovo their homeland, which is not unreasonable since they live there and outnumber the local Serbs 9 to 1. Most Serbs, however, regard Kosovo as holy ground, the cradle of their nationhood, because of 1389 and all that. It has never helped relations between the two communities that Albanians are predominantly Muslims, while Serbs in the region have tended to see themselves as descendants of Lazar, defending the eastern frontier of Christendom against the encroachments of Islam. During the 1980s, this classically Balkan imbroglio played a key part in the rise of Milosevic, who in turn...
...cited "the 73 hours spent under arrest" in the hands of coup plotters last August, "the betrayal by people who had worked closely with my husband," the collapse of the economy, "the rupturing of the spiritual links of our culture," and the dismembering of the Soviet Union. "I cannot regard Ukraine as some kind of foreign country," she said. "Ukraine...
...facility to the new airport. Blocked by a committee chairman, Perot's top lieutenant, Tom Luce, tried to induce the committee vice chairman to act in the chairman's absence. Luce failed, but the committee chairman, Steven Wolens, howls, "They came in and tried to hijack our committee without regard to protocol or the Texas constitution...
...election campaign. Meanwhile, two Perot executives channeled $100,000 to the presidential campaign of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. In 1974, according to Common Cause, Perot gave $90,000 each to the Republicans and Democrats. Although Perot has shown little regard for George Bush, he gave $8,000 to Bush-Quayle committees and $51,000 to the Republican Party between...
...even closer kinship links Japan, ironically, with the country that many Americans feel closest of all to, and regard as their second -- or cultural -- home, the country with which we enjoy our "special relationship." The affinities between England and Japan go far beyond the fact that both are tea-loving nations with a devotion to gardens, far beyond the fact that both drive on the left and are rainy islands studded with green villages. They go even beyond the fact that both have an astringent sense of % hierarchy, subscribe to a code of stoical reticence and are, in some respects...