Word: central
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...steep slopes of central Kosovo, a magenta KIA 4x4 slows to a crawl amid the cheers of running children. Behind the wheel, the rebel Albanian commander known as Celiku, or "Steely," acknowledges their play-soldier salutes, greets several wizened old men and continues up the mountain to his hilltop compound. Sitting on the cushioned floor of his house, sipping thick Turkish coffee, Celiku, a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army's "general headquarters," says there's only one way to end the war in the secessionist southern Serbian province. "Serbia has to be defeated militarily," he says. "Otherwise they will...
Much of that success comes from a diffuse, hydra-headed power structure that has rebounded from repeated attempts to put it down. The general headquarters, based in central Kosovo, consists of a dozen or so men who control the political, civil and military operations of the 3,000 to 10,000 rebels. In the field, however, commanders operate with independence. There is safety in that broad, nontraditional power base: it means there is no one head for the Serbs to cut off. It has produced a wide range of K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready...
Hubble's last great contribution to astronomy was a central role in the design and construction of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain. Four times as powerful as the Hooker, the Hale would be the largest telescope on Earth for four decades. It would have been even longer, but its completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...
Happily, in those days before tape recorders, some of Wittgenstein's disciples took verbatim notes, so we can catch a rare glimpse of two great minds addressing a central problem from opposite points of view: the problem of contradiction in a formal system. For Turing, the problem is a practical one: if you design a bridge using a system that contains a contradiction, "the bridge may fall down." For Wittgenstein, the problem was about the social context in which human beings can be said to "follow the rules" of a mathematical system. What Turing saw, and Wittgenstein...
...fate of the Indian territories of Jammu and Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim region which has been the source of conflict between the two nations for over 50 years, is central to the disarmament question, Khokar said...