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...major logistics base for the entire Kosovo peacekeeping operation, and they're not about to withdraw. The reason for the early deployment of the British troops may be to reassure the Macedonian authorities of Western support for the peace effort. Macedonia's parliament still has 45 days to adopt the agreement, and Western leaders will want to ensure that the government doesn't get cold feet...
...Macedonia's parliament will be given 45 days to adopt the political agreement expected next Monday. And during that time, NATO plans to coax the guerrillas into standing down and disarming. Of course, there are grounds to believe the guerrillas may be willing to do this: For a "Greater Albania" insurgency exported from neighboring Kosovo, they will have done extraordinarily well if they keep the deal. Most important, it will have made them an indispensable factor in the stability of Macedonian political life - this despite their habit of driving non-Albanians out of the villages they've captured. Guerrilla commanders...
...parents aren't people we'd otherwise hang out with, we will still spend time with the family. Of course, we take special care of Mary. She often depends on us for dinner; my partner picks up her dry cleaning and helps with other errands. Mary is planning to adopt a child, and when she does, we're going to have to go back to diaper bags and bottles of formula long before we imagined. We're ready. It's a chance to return the favor of a lifetime...
Starbucks says its Passport-only policy is being done on a "test basis" and will be re-evaluated in the early fall. The company will then consider whether to keep the exclusive arrangement, adopt multiple registration plans (which eBay announced last week) or develop a system with even greater privacy protections--one in which private data would be discarded when a transaction is completed...
Remember the "indispensable nation"? That was Madeleine Albright's catchphrase for the U.S. role in international affairs. Yet Monday's decision by the nations of the industrialized and developing world to adopt the Kyoto Accord - despite its rejection by Washington - may be a sign that the Home of the Brave is in danger of growing dispensable...