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...risk of real trouble? Belgrade is threatening to cut off electricity supplies and close trade corridors, but it has ruled out a military response, and 15,000 NATO peacekeepers remain on the ground in Kosovo to prevent open conflict. But in one scenario, ethnic Serb police stationed in northern Kosovo and supervised by the U.N. would change sides after a declaration of independence, thus compelling the U.N. to impose martial law. Violence could also flare if ethnic Albanians attempt to march on Mitrovice to prevent it from seceding. Any such conflict could easily spill across borders. Meanwhile, Serbs in neighboring...
...would alienate the country's Islam-based political parties. By the time the military tried to intervene, a homegrown insurgency was in full swing. Fazlullah equated resistance to the government with an anti-American jihad that had already gained some support among Swat's Pashtuns, who belong to same ethnic group as Afghanistan's Taliban. The high incidence of civilian casualties from early bombing raids targeting extremist strongholds further alienated the populace. "The people want the militancy to stop," says Adnan Aurangzeb, a former MP and the grandson of Swat's last princely ruler. "The militants have stopped tourism...
EMILIE ROSENBLATT, Columbia University senior, on the end of a 10-day student hunger strike. The action was aimed at reforming the curriculum to include more ethnic studies and preventing university expansion into Harlem...
...Viet Tan identified its arrested members as Nguyen Quoc Quan, 54, of California and Leon Truong, 54, of Hawaii, both U.S. citizens born in Vietnam. French-Vietnamese writer and activist Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, 51, and ethnic-Vietnamese Thai national Khunmi Somsak, 58, were also arrested. The activists' respective embassies said they are now trying to find out what law they are accused of breaking...
...undergraduate who reads The Crimson will tell you how rarely it is delivered to their room, as promised. They’ll also be able to recite the complement of contemporary complaints that define our lives at students. We are consigned to horrific email addresses because of our ethnic origins—just ask moore2@fas.harvard.edu. We have to put up with crappy advising. Student group leaders have been dragged in front of the Administrative Board and threatened with every conceivable injustice, just because some weakling freshman puked in the bushes behind the Advocate or an impatient punch pissed...