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...multinational empire (until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), Russia had hundreds of different ethnic groups within its considerable borders, including Slavs, Muslims and Turkish peoples. During their reign, the Bolsheviks addressed the concerns of such a multi-ethnic state, trying various methods to stay atop their empire. At one point, they used a divide-and-conquer approach that led them to create 10,000 different governmental subdivisions within the USSR in order to accommodate--and separate--each ethnic group...
...hunters drove out of Kosovo as the people they once hunted drove in. Stuck in a 12-mile-long convoy, Marinko sat atop his army tank surveying the exodus with the cold, dead eyes of a four-year veteran of the Yugoslav army. Marinko is a Kosovar Serb, and he concedes no defeat. "I will take my parents to Belgrade, relieve myself of military duties and return to my home in Pec," he said. "This is all I have. And if the Albanians want to come and take it from me, then let them make my day. I'll kill...
...deep wallets all dove in, not just Wilson guys but Lungren backers and old Reaganites and factions that usually try to have nothing to do with one another. Bush refused to rank them, stack the chairmen atop the vice chairmen; instead he made them all "pioneers," committed to raising $100,000 each for his campaign. "He did to California what Tito did to Yugoslavia," said Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser in Washington. "He pulled all the factions together and said it is better to live together than die alone...
Harvard has pledged to renovate Widener Library, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and University Hall, rebuild the clock tower atop Memorial Hall, construct a home for its newly inaugurated center for Genomics and Proteomics, and revising its plans for the Knafel Center for the Social Sciences...
...time to be winging it. NTSB investigators haven't yet determined exactly why American Airlines Flight 1420 skidded off that wet runway in Little Rock last Tuesday night, but it seems the pilots are back atop the list of suspects. Sources close to the investigation told USA Today that chief pilot Richard Buschmann and copilot Michael Origel seem to have skipped all or part of their landing "checklist" that airlines use to make sure their pilots follow proper procedure, especially during takeoff and landing. (Buschmann was killed in the accident; Origel survived.) Did the pilots chuck the book when they...