Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the ethnic Albanians were the first to see sense. Their upstart army, the K.L.A., had won international confirmation of its meteoric rise to pre-eminent power in the would-be state. By appearing to be willing to give up their arms and dream of independence in exchange for a strong Western umbrella, the Kosovars could show up Serb belligerence. It was smart tactics: if the Serbs refused to go along, the Kosovars wouldn't have to give up anything. So the ethnic Albanians sat down and signed the deal...
...international crisis. He has built his career, as biographer Slavoljub Djukic puts it, by being both pyromaniac and fireman--igniting crises, then convincing people that only he can put the fires out. But the Kosovo conflagration he first lighted in 1989--by stripping away the rights of the ethnic Albanians who make up 90% of the province's population--is proving tricky to put out. Now he faces a perilous calculus: Is it riskier to cave in to Western demands or to suffer through air strikes...
...sent into Yugoslavia, although it seems doubtful that much can be accomplished from the air. Whether Milosevic will be deterred from his grip on Kosovo remains to be seen; it seems inevitable, however, that Milosevic will never voluntarily withdraw troops from the bitterly disputed territory that, while 70 percent ethnic Albanian, is claimed as the historical and spiritual heartland of the Serb...
Those in favor of glorifying the accomplishments of first-years a bit more than those of other students have justifiable reasons. In addition to a class's ethnic, geographic and religious diversity, there exists educational diversity as well. Although the college preparatory students from Andover and Horace Mann abound in the class of 2002, they are balanced by students from high schools with academic programs geared toward state schools and vocational training...
...celebration began with a speech detailing the celebration of Nowrooz given in Farsi, the language of ethnic Persians...