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...Tuesday afternoon, police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas. On Wednesday, a group of ministers linked arms and--for one glorious hour--physically separated more than 300 protesters from a battalion of 200 police. By nightfall, though, the violence was spilling into other neighborhoods--crashing through blocks still scarred from the 1968 riots. A white motorist was dragged from her car and beaten. Police arrested more than 500 people by week's end; more than 60 were injured...
...trouble spot, beginning with "fyrom," the initials of the awkward circumlocution - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - meant to assuage the Greeks' opposition to the use of the very name Macedonia. Then there was unprofor, the United Nations Protection Force - later unpredep, for U.N. Preventive Deployment - which put a Nordic battalion and an American task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp...
...knowledge and engines of analytical thought, as they were herders, attentive sheep-dogs that rounded up the young'uns and kept them under control with colored paper and white glue. This observation by no means demeans the job of elementary school teachers in any way; with an entire battalion of hyperactive, incoherent children bouncing into one another like paste-eating billiard balls, only the most impressive manipulation of mob psychology is effective in merely controlling the little monsters at these high densities. But it does show that while the most crucial portions of children's brains are being wired...
...without losing the left. Soul mates all, they would gather regularly to talk "progressive governance." It was as if the Renaissance Weekend had gone European, but with a nice political payoff. Intimacy smoothed over hard conflicts; a phone call from the White House would do the job of a battalion of diplomats. But you can't count on such a cozy ride. In fact, you are the odd man out, as a conservative whose Cabinet does not look as compassionate as you sounded on Inauguration Day. Also, by now the Third Way is veering to the left again; culturally...
...least known resources of the University, the HUPD firing range is hidden in the basement of 175 N. Harvard St. Originally built as the firing range for Harvard's battalion of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), it was turned over to HUPD in the 1970s when the University ended its affiliation with ROTC...