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...hold dear as their sacred ancestral home. But its 2 million inhabitants are 90% ethnic Albanians, known as Kosovars, who have long felt stifled under the domination of Belgrade. Their patience has been running out since 1989, when Milosevic revoked their autonomy and two years later launched a violent crackdown...
...K.L.A., as well as the moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, insist that outright independence is the only acceptable solution. Milosevic shows no willingness to countenance that and has stalled on negotiations in order to launch his crackdown. The West frets that escalation of the conflict could lead to a Balkan war wider and more destabilizing than Bosnia's, drawing in Albania, Macedonia and even Greece. Holbrooke's aim is to cajole everyone to the bargaining table...
...carried on the site's English-language section, although the latter does offer valuable insights into the character of Chinese leaders. But those concerned about human rights, of course, are unlikely to take much comfort in the news that Li Peng, the hard-liner who ordered the Tiananmen Square crackdown, "is a good helper and often does some housework...
...Scott Krueger, a first-year at MIT, dies of alcohol poisoning after a drinking binge at a fraternity party. The death draws national attention, and MIT responds with a severe crackdown on underage drinking...
There's no doubt that the postering on the walkways of the Yard has gotten out of control; the posters are quickly ruined by the foot traffic, left in tattered strips of paper and tape. But the answer should not be a crackdown on student group postering but rather an effort to provide more plentiful and useful locations for that postering...