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...democratically elected assembly, though turnout among minority Serbs was relatively low. Ibrahim Rugova, whose Democratic League of Kosovo took more than 46% of the vote, called for Kosovo's full independence "as soon as possible." But U.N. officials said the province will remain part of Serbia until a political settlement can be reached. In the meantime, it will continue to be administered by the U.N., in tandem with the new assembly. MACEDONIA Shock Waves The fragile peace process received further setbacks after a bomb exploded in the border town of Tetevo and the main ethnic Macedonian party, the Social Democratic...
However, prosecutors argued that Sharpe’s murder of his 44-year-old wife Karen was a calculated and planned response to his wife’s refusal to hand over $3 million she had received as part of their divorce settlement. They argued that Sharpe had made efforts to disguise his premeditation and that he later faked symptoms of mental illness to impress psychiatrists and the jury...
...states are not alone. "Anyone who believes the settlement would actually free manufacturers with competing technologies is living in fantasy land," says Ken Wasch, president of the Software and Information Industry Association, an industrywide lobbying group Microsoft once belonged to. His problem is that Gates has a long history of splitting legal hairs. A 1995 consent decree bound him not to bundle free software with Windows. In 1997 Netscape complained that Microsoft was doing just that with Internet Explorer. Microsoft countered--successfully--that it wasn't a bundle: Explorer was a part of Windows itself. That one provision cost...
Self-critique is clearly not Rabbo’s favorite pastime. In fact, after over a year of Palestinian terror, murder, lynching and rampant violence, Rabbo’s best example of a recent Palestinian mistake was that they ought to have pushed harder for Israel to freeze settlement activity. The Palestinian choice to resort to violence did not come to mind...
Although the settlement at Tufts may halt the protests planned by Tufts’ Student Labor Action Movement, Saenz says “the step we took at Tufts is one of the first,” and that the union, which played a highly visible role during last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in, will continue to “build partnerships” with students, faculty and community members...