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...Balkan wars started in 1991, Mitrovica, or Kosovska Mitrovica as it is known in Serbia, was just another ethnically mixed city in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. But, as the Serb strongman stepped up his campaign against ethnic Albanians and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, old neighborly ties began to fray. One night the body of Lindita's father was found in a back street on another side of town. A restaurant owner, he had been accused of giving food to the rebels. The Rexhepi family believe he was murdered by Serbs...
Jesse is flanked on his right by distinguished black faculty. To his left, familiar faces. It seems local politicians she knows well from the City beat have jumped into the fray. And lined up in front of Jackson’s table, the national media...
...cloning issue has been debated extensively in the politically charged hallways of Capitol Hill. Now a new, wholly unfamiliar perspective enters the fray - cool, calm, objective and, not coincidentally, scientific...
...manager—to do that sometimes. And no one is exempt from such a challenge, even a sharply worded one; it’s simply a part of life. Those who cried “racism” and brought Jesse Jackson and others into the fray acted, I thought, in a cowardly as well as a bullying fashion...
With a department teetering on the verge of revolt and national figures joining the fray, the controversy over Afro-American studies threatens to snowball into a more broadly based criticism of Summers’ tenure as president...