Word: generalize
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Waldman plans to move to Cambridge with his three children and his wife , Liz Fine, who is a U.S. Deputy Attorney General...
KFOR commander General Sir Michael Jackson said last weekend that the KLA leadership was not fully in control of its "hard-liners." But this may have simply been a polite warning -? observers agree that KLA leader Hashem Thaci, despite political support from Washington, is himself one of the movement?s leading hard-liners. The ethnic cleansing of the province?s remaining Serbs and the violence against peacekeepers would be unlikely without at least the tacit support of the KLA. And that?s a problem for NATO, which insists on a multiethnic Kosovo, and opposes independence. But it?s not only...
...even the peacekeepers will have to behave. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday signed on to the Geneva Convention, extending the rules of war to cover U.N. peacekeeping forces. Although that may sound a little superfluous, the present situation is that such forces are only governed by the codes applied by each nation contributing troops -? which has resulted in widely divergent responses when soldiers from different countries have engaged in abuses during peacekeeping operations. While Belgian and Canadian troops were severely punished for torturing captives in Somalia, Pakistani personnel weren?t even charged for similar abuses during the same...
TRANSFERRED. AIR FORCE GENERAL JOSEPH RALSTON, 55, to NATO commander, from his current post as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In May, Ralston will replace Army General Wesley Clark, who ran NATO's war against Yugoslavia...
There are about 100 day-trading firms in the U.S. Clients open accounts with minimums of about $50,000 and are allowed to use fully equipped trading posts, which include a telephone; monitors displaying the bid-and-asked-prices of stocks and other data; financial and general news wires; and a direct link to markets where a trader can make dozens or even hundreds of trades in a day. The same tools are generally available at home or in the office via the Internet, though they are less easily managed and access is slower. The day-trading firms make money...