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...always said that the government should look and feel like the place in which it operates,” Purcell said. “I brought that feeling with me here.” McGee said she hopes to expand the Council’s representation to include ethnic, political, and LGBT groups in the next few months. She also said she hopes to institutionalize the role of campus organization in the Council by automatically adding their political advocacy chairs to the group. —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu
...fashion line with Macdonald, Fahmy scales back the ethnic touches and concentrates instead on large and flashy pieces. Macdonald says the jewelry is the perfect accompaniment to his silky, sparkly dresses. "It's the taste of the unexpected that people want," he says. "The women who wear my clothes are the stars of the party." For last year's collaboration, Macdonald asked Fahmy if she could design a glamorous bangle in the form of a common nail. The result: a gold-encrusted hybrid between a village wedding armlet and a biker bracelet...
...clear that the stabilizing force of EU membership is the only way to normalize relations between the two countries. The EU must immediately take a strong stand in favor of admitting the Balkan nations, including eventually Serbia and Kosovo, if the scars from centuries of ethnic and political conflict in the region are ever to be healed...
Last month, ethnic Albanians in Kosovo celebrated the one-year anniversary of their country’s independence from Serbia. This anniversary is, in some ways, a triumph for Kosovo. The United Nations-backed government is slowly taking over some of its own administration, although 15,000 NATO troops are still deployed there to maintain security and internal stability...
...independence has contributed to international ambiguity regarding Kosovo’s status. The conflict is not limited to the diplomatic sphere; last year, when the United States officially recognized Kosovo’s independence, riots broke out in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, and in Kosovo itself ethnic tensions between Serbians and ethnic Albanians are still rife...