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...KOSOVO Roadblock Clashes NATO peacekeepers broke through road blocks and clashed with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo, hurling stun grenades and tear-gas canisters and leaving one woman dead and 10 other people injured. The clashes followed an attempt by U.N. administrators to set up a tax collection point on a road leading into northern Kosovo, legally part of Serbia...
...bombing range on Vieques is populated by crowds of Puerto Rican protesters and a handful of Navy pilots. Throughout the weekend and into Monday, the Navy was been forced to stop the exercises as protesters broke through barriers and formed human chains to block the entrance to the bombing range...
...election pits the ruling party of President Milo Djukanovic, a former ally of Slobodan Milosevic who broke with the strongman in 1997, against a pro-Yugoslav opposition with close ties to the democratic leadership in Belgrade. If Djukanovic wins - and polls currently give his coalition 44% of the vote vs. 26% for his nearest rivals - he has vowed to hold a referendum on independence from Serbia as early as June. Various polls peg support for independence at between 47% and 58%, and that is likely to grow once a secessionist campaign begins. Djukanovic, 39, enjoys considerable personal authority...
...sleep much at night, and when he does, he is plagued with nightmares. His hair has turned gray, he has bags under his eyes, and he has lost weight. Every waking moment is a struggle to keep himself together. During a series of interviews with TIME last week, Waddle broke down several times, showing a depth of grief that was wrenching in its rawness. "I am not tired of apologizing," he said, tears streaming down his face as he sat in his rocking chair at home. "But I am tired of crying. It kills me that nine people died because...
...thing I hated most about the class was that at the very end, while everyone was resting for a few minutes in the stillness of Shavasana, the corpse pose (designed to quiet the mind), Leah broke into song. Classroom scuttlebutt is that she has been known to sing On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, but I've only heard her sing verses from New Age-y folk tunes that mention planets spinning around the sun and the Earth Mother calling her children home...