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With each side convinced that the other is about to crack, resolution of the Balkan conflict remains focused on diplomatic efforts. Last week, the public airing of differences among NATO members over ground troops and ending the bombing gave Milosevic reason to hold out for more concessions from the alliance. And some appear to be coming -- over the weekend, Madeleine Albright conceded that Belgrade should be allowed to keep some troops in Kosovo after a settlement. But reports of a growing protest movement inside Yugoslavia against the war have also given NATO renewed cause to believe its air campaign will...
...team was not granted official court time for scheduled practices. In fact, players had to rise at the crack of dawn to take advantage of available court time at 7 a.m., a fact that could discourage many late-rising tennis aficionados...
...team was not granted official court time for scheduled practices. In fact, players had to rise at the crack of dawn to take advantage of available court time at 7 a.m., a fact that could discourage many late-rising tennis aficionados...
...fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded by flower beds full of dead tulips. A flagpole bears...
...California high school. It was sunny all the time, I was always in class, and I went out a lot on the weekends. But as spring reading period gets under way and the sun is shining, I am having some trouble motivating myself to sit in the library and crack the books...