Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest hurdle may be his own character. The isolated region of Kosovo where he was born, Drenica, is known for its hardheaded individualists. Those same rural traditions--"a Drenica person opens his heart to no man," says a longtime friend--have given Thaci a secretive, lone-wolf personality ill suited to democratic politics. At dinner that reserve undercut his every attempt to sound Western and humanistic. When asked what his plans were for the Serbian civilian minority that remains in Kosovo, he assured us its inclusion was important to rebuilding the province. "We're not interested in building parallel, segregated...
...overcome the boundaries so carefully guarded by territorial educators and the makers of achievement tests. My 20-plus years of working with poorly skilled teens tell me that when reading comprehension and memory skills are low, there is no learning of any academic subject matter. JEANNE M. AGUIRRE Belleville, Ill...
Ending social promotion is part of an attempt to restore some value to the shredded America high school diploma, which cannot now assure anyone that the bearer can even read or write. DAN HAGEN Charleston, Ill...
...Guys Who Collect Coins: William Archer Jr. (R., Texas), collection value: $16,326; Steve Largent (R., Okla.), more than $30,000; Philip Crane (R., Ill.), more than $50,000; and Ronald Paul (R., Texas), more than...
...Incredible Record Keeper: John M. Shimkus (R., Ill.), who reported 15 pages of gifts, including a plastic letter opener from the Pontiac, Ill., Tourism Office; 21 calendars; a bumper sticker from an "outraged, anonymous citizen"; a hog sausage from the Eldred Baptist Church; and 12 jars of horseradish from Keller Farms in Illinois...