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...down from its rejection of Western-authored constitutional changes designed to improve the position of ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia - specifically, the proposal that Albanian be recognized as a second official language in public life. Macedonia's Slavic majority sees that proposal as a reflection of an agenda to ultimately split Macedonia, which they believe is the ultimate objective of the rebel National Liberation Army. And the trashing of Western embassies and a McDonalds outlet in Skopje earlier this week was a stark reminder that ordinary Macedonians no longer trust Western mediation efforts...
...that kadabba walked upright at all is hugely significant. Paleontologists have suspected for nearly 200 years that bipedalism was probably the key evolutionary transition that split the human line off from the apes, and fossil discoveries as far back as Java Man in the 1890s supported that notion. The astonishingly complete skeleton of Lucy, with its clearly apelike skull but upright posture, cemented the idea a quarter-century...
...same jury in March convicted four others of plotting the Tanzania bombing and the deadlier attack on the U.S. embassy in Kenya that resulted in 224 fatalities. DIED. MAXIMUS V HAKIM, 93, 20th patriarch of the breakaway Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; in Beirut. Greek Catholics split from the East Orthodox Church in 1724 to accept the authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer relations with the East Orthodox Church, straining ties with Rome. DIED. FRED NEIL, 64, folk-songwriter who penned the theme song...
Meehan and Shays have been frantically rewriting parts of the bill to preserve their coalition. They split the difference on hard-money limits, keeping the cap in House races at $1,000 and letting the caps in Senate and presidential races rise to $2,000. But the AFL-CIO, among others, still has "substantial problems with this bill," says Laurence Gold, its associate general counsel...
...have any control anymore," says Dube, 39, a tall, mustachioed man with a quiet voice and a long stare. Like many, but not all, landowners in the Powder River basin, Dube owns only the surface rights to his land. The mineral rights are split among the federal and state governments and other private owners in a complex title history dating back to the homesteading acts of the early 1900s. So Dube could do nothing to stop CMS Oil and Gas, which owns the mineral rights to his land, when it approached him two years ago about drilling in fields...