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...digital clock seemed out of place in contrast to the more dated architecture of the Cambridge Savings Bank façade. “It looked like something that had been stuck there in the 80s and didn’t quite fit,” he said. Ivo I. Parashkevov ’06 expressed the same sentiment: “It doesn’t fit, [but] modernity never fits in.” According to Jeri Foutter, a CSB representative, the new clock uses LED technology and has a lower energy consumption level than...
...talks as soon as possible." That may not be what Mesic's countrymen care most about, though. Two years ago, two-thirds of Croatians supported joining the E.U.; less than half do so today, according to polls. Brussels' decision to wait put the center-right government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in a tight spot. Zagreb has overhauled hundreds of laws to prepare for E.U. entry, and has surrendered eight indicted war criminals to the tribunal, braving the protests of many Croatians who deny that Croatian forces committed any crimes during the 1991-95 war against Serbia. Gotovina...
...Army could do more with less and do it better and faster. That proved right as far as the invasion went, but occupying the country was a different matter entirely. "The notion that with [about] 130,000 troops, we have sufficient numbers to provide security is patently wrong," says Ivo Daalder, who was on the National Security Council staff under Clinton and is now at the Brookings Institution. "We need at least twice as many to make sure that the streets in Baghdad are safe enough for people to go out and shop--let alone take care of the counterinsurgency...
...triumphed at parliamentary polls, bringing an end to the center-left government of Prime Minister Ivica Racan, below, after almost four years. The HDZ won 62 out of 140 seats, enough to forge a government after picking a junior partner from among about a dozen small parties. HDZ leader Ivo Sanader has committed himself to bringing Croatia into NATO...
...biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence-management team" tasked with detecting and cleaning up after a chemical or biological assault. The vapors of many industrial chemicals - including phosgene, chlorine and simple ammonia - can burn, corrode equipment or even kill. Here...