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NATO says it is doing its best to concentrate its fire on Serb military units in Kosovo, and yet reports are trickling out of its capital, Pristina, of large numbers of ethnic Albanian civilians whose homes, limbs and loved ones have been blown away by alliance munitions. Throughout Yugoslavia and even beyond its borders, weapons deemed "smart" and "precision-guided" have veered off target, destroying property and lives. On Monday -- only a day after NATO apologized for a Saturday air strike that killed 47 people on a civilian bus in Kosovo -- it was reported from Montenegro that the alliance...
...slow about taking responsibility, their credibility is damaged. But for all of NATO's assurances that it is taking the utmost care to target the Serb military needle in the haystack of innocents, the reality is that Kosovo remains densely populated with civilians -- the majority of them still ethnic Albanian -- and the savagery of marauding Serb paramilitaries isn't the only danger they face...
...roots of the conflict in Kosovo. The Serb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks on the fields of Kosovo. That's why the Serbs have felt tied to the land even though the majority of the population is ethnic Albanian. Poetry can both commemorate and motivate war." Shawn Feeney '99 endearingly reminded me that "without poetry, there would be nothing to sing," and Sonesh Chainani '99 argued that poets are "just the beautiful people" not the "unacknowledged legislators of the world" as Bysshe Percy Shelley once claimed. Dan Chiasson, a teaching fellow...
HRUAI is working with the New England Albanian Relief Organization (NEARO) to ship and distribute the supplies. Brillembourg said NEARO is the only organization HRUAI could locate in Massachusetts currently sending supplies to the war-torn region...
...anonymous donor to St. Mary's Albanian Church in Worcester has offered to pay the shipping costs, and Romar Trucking in Allston has volunteered local transportation...