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...success of Macedonia's insurgency may lie partly in the fact that when Albanian nationalists in Kosovo first sent a guerrilla army into the impoverished former Yugoslav republic, they found a huge pool of young Albanian men willing to join up. They were driven by a long-held sense of political and cultural grievance against the Macedonian authorities. But for many, the decision may have been made easier by the mass unemployment that left little hope of finding a job. Guerrillas always imagine themselves in heroic terms, and they have a sense of purpose that beats sitting around waiting...
...time. Along with relativity and quantum physics, evolution forms the cornerstone of human understanding of nature. Your article, aimed at the lay reader, is one of the best scientific pieces I've read in years. It puts man where he belongs. He is part of the cosmos, driven relentlessly by evolution and emerging by pure chance, not by any divine fiat. VU NGUYEN Chino Hills, Calif...
...part of the grand empire of Michael Marks, the amiable, fast-talking chief executive who since 1993 has driven Flextronics, based in Singapore and San Jose, Calif., from also-ran to pacesetter in the so-called electronics-manufacturing services (EMS) business...
...shadows around the family tree, the one cast by Joseph P. Kennedy is the most paradoxical. The son of an Irish saloon keeper, Joe was driven to succeed in Wasp America. He was a master of manipulation, in both business and public relations. "You would be surprised," he wrote to Jack, "how a book that really makes the grade with high-class people stands you in good stead for years to come." And so in 1940, Joe enlisted his friend Arthur Krock, a columnist for the New York Times, to edit Jack's senior thesis from Harvard into a book...
...Marine friend who was planning to drive the woman home comes looking for her. He finds her face down on the hood of a station wagon, a black man having intercourse with her from behind. When the Marine calls out, the man zips up and hops into a car driven by his friends. The vehicle's license plate, according to eyewitnesses, bears the letter Y?signifying a military vehicle...