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...Another favorite tourist spot is Chinatown (T: Orange Line to Chinatown). A good time to visit the area is on a bright, i.e. sage, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the numerous Chinese restaurants, and avoid much of the crime that has plagued the area in the past...
Another favorite tourist spot is Chinatown (T: Orange Line to Chinatown). A good time to visit the area is on a bright, i.e. sage, weekend afternoon when you can enjoy dim sum in one of the numerous Chinese restaurants, and avoid much of the crime that has plagued the area in the past...
...foreign ministers remain divided over the question of the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army, with the U.S. pushing for the insurgent army to have a role in the territory?s police and political administration, while Canada and other countries urged the U.N. to avoid allowing the KLA to "usurp authority in Kosovo." Rebuilding Serbia also remains a point of contention, with Annan arguing forcefully for a broad definition of humanitarian aid, while the U.S. seeks to limit assistance to Belgrade while Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. "Kofi Annan will push hard against denying aid to Serbia because common sense...
Other Albanians could not avoid the sight of Serb brutality. "I cannot tell you what it was like to see my father with bullets ripping him from head to toe," said Jusuf Tafili, who saw the corpse of his father 41 hours after he was executed by unknown Serbs. Among the killers, Jusuf believes, were some local Serbs. "I hope the Serbs who did that won't stay here," said Jusuf, "because I know who they are. If I find them, I will kill them...
...that the preoccupation with zero casualties may boomerang. "Force protection has taken on a higher degree of importance than the other battlefield dynamics of firepower, leadership and maneuver, and has often stifled the flexibility of the operational commander," retired Army Colonel Max Manwaring wrote recently. The U.S. desire to avoid risking troops, though understandable, "sends mixed signals to warring factions, reduces U.S. credibility with coalition partners as well as antagonists, and hampers civil-military cooperation," he wrote. "Excessive emphasis on force protection can be politically and militarily dangerous...