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...targets of this latest round of Serb bitterness are the mostly Western countries - around 20, so far - that have officially recognized Kosovo as a new state. The Serbian government itself, diplomats say, may have indirectly sanctioned the brazen attack by hooded protesters on the U.S. embassy and other Western embassies. Belgrade is also taking steps to undermine the fledgling state itself by encouraging the partition of Serb-dominated areas in northern Kosovo. Though a new Balkan war seems unlikely, Kosovo's birth is proving messier than its backers expected. And Serbia, which had been edging toward membership of the European...
...left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum skins and copied the Aborigines' moccasins, trying native foods and Aboriginal bush-burning techniques. Within two years of settlement, convicts were living in the bush year-round. Ejected from their homeland before the Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there...
...completely disregarding everything that’s been accomplished so far,” sophomore goalie Christina Kessler said. “We’re going into our first game of the season [tonight].”No. 1 Harvard will face Cornell in the first round of the ECAC playoffs, a best-out-of-three series at the Bright Hockey Center. The opening faceoff of the first game is set for tonight at 7 p.m. Game 2 takes place tomorrow at 4 p.m., with the rubber match on Sunday at the same time if necessary.The...
...MHASP for its part, stresses the importance of forming relationships within the commnity beyond the project they advertise. Counselors meet their students in the afternoons at the project’s playground, and work with them for several hours at a nearby college. To round off the day, the counselors walk the children home, speaking to MHASP’s goals of expanding the volunteers’ duties pastjust teaching...
...minute affair, sponsored by MSNBC and held on the campus of Cleveland State University, had most of the same features we have come to expect of the last round of Clinton-Obama debates: strong jabs, deep dives into health care policy, pointed arguments over the meaning of words-and another cordial, high-road finish...