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...pounds the steel roof overhead. "We trusted the U.N. before and look what it got us. My family has lived in Kosovo for 500 years. But there is no future here." For Kosovo's Serbs and Albanians alike, this week's vote is about more than just who will fix potholed roads. It could be the first step on the road to independence from Serbia, completing the break that began when NATO bombers drove Slobodan Milosevic's troops out of the province in 1999. For the past five years Kosovo, which is still legally part of Serbia, has been ruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Local Poll or The Birth of a Nation? | 10/17/2004 | See Source »

...Rob’s fix for melodic melancholy runs the gamut of rock history, but it centers squarely in American soul and Motown. But where these genres draw their pain through mostly musical means, this is nothing compared to more clever bands who have made albums chronicling their pain through woe-wrought lyrics cast over pop melodies that add pathos to the songs in a brew that never fails to crush the willing spirit. It occurs to me that Rob’s tastes may have never needed to cross the Atlantic...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, KUKSTICITY | Title: The ministers of loquacious melancholy | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...while Princeton students have had a year to enjoy the snazzy succulents, Harvard students will now receive their fix, too. The mints will be offered in the Greenhouse and the Quincy Grille, in addition to Square locations like Cardullo’s and Newbury Comics. “I’m totally stoked to bring oral fixation to Harvard,” Rich says...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Fresh (and Hip!) | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...Nong said the alumni office worked hard to publicize the voting and fix the problem...

Author: By Samantha L. Groden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Class Marshals Named | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...humans are gamblers by nature, incorrigible ones, but we're not stupid gamblers: we need to know what the odds are and when the fix is in. So let's extend our posthumous thanks to poor fools like Albert Einstein--as well as to Einstein's high school teacher, who once made the following immortal prediction to Einstein's father: "It doesn't matter what he does--he will never amount to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: FORWARD THINKING | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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