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...tried to arrest a group of Serb judges who had occupied a U.N. courthouse in Mitrovica. The confrontation escalated. Serbs tossed grenades; nato troops and U.N. police fired back with rubber bullets. Hundreds were injured, and a Ukrainian U.N. police officer was killed. U.N. officials say Belgrade orchestrated the clash as part of a wider effort to seize control of U.N. offices in northern Kosovo; local Serb leaders say they were only asserting their right to be judged by their own kind...
...second clash in the space of a week between Ivy League North champion Crimson (24-20, 14-6 Ivy) and America-East leader Boston University (29-17), the margin of victory was once again just one run. Unlike their 1-0 last week, yesterday’s matchup featured more offense as the teams played out a 5-4 game in favor of the home side...
...legal straits might be the stuff of an old-fashioned Western movie: A cattle rancher who believes the government and its allies are unfairly trying to seize his land, and picks up a rifle to signal his displeasure. But in contemporary Bolivia, where Larsen makes his home, his recent clash with the authorities is but another instance of rising tension over land-ownership between, on the one hand, left-wing President Evo Morales and his supporters among Bolivia's indigenous population, and on the other, political opponents backed by the country's wealthy eastern elite...
...Conflict over land is also at the heart of the clash over a new draft constitution restricting an individual's land holdings to just under 25,000 acres - a profound challenge to the ownership pattern in a country where 10% of the population controls more than 90% of arable land. "This is an extremely problematic proposal," says Osinaga. "You impose those kinds of limits and watch how fast the economy crumbles and poverty grows...
...works,” Lazarcheck says. “It’s a black comedy, it’s a revenge tragedy, and it’s an operatic musical all at the same time, and somehow those ideals don’t seem to clash.” Sondheim’s score is particularly challenging to coordinate. “Just trying to get a whole group of people on the same page musically is very difficult, especially music like this, in which there are songs where five or six people are singing totally different things...