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...question of Kosovo's destiny became more and more acute, I tracked Dani down again, eager to know what had become of him and his homeland at this watershed moment in history. Stepping through the sliding glass doors at Pristina airport, I spotted that same giant smile I knew from eight years earlier, now with a little scruff of a goatee beneath...
...translating from Serbo-Croatian, Stojanovic tells me the question of Kosovo's independence is by now a chess match between Russia and the U.S., while Serbs and Albanians want the same things: peace and work. He tells how he used to work in a state-owned corner store, and knew all the Albanian residents. "I've known some of them since I was a kid, and we have always got along," Stojanovic says. "But when I invite them to my home for coffee, they say: 'Not yet - it's not time.' But when will that time come...
...return from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala, that he learned that the Labour Party's General Secretary Peter Watt had accepted donations for party coffers in a potentially criminal breach of the rules on party funding. Watts has admitted that he knew some donations originated from a wealthy businessman named David Abrahams but were channeled to the party through a number of other individuals. British law stipulates that the real identity of donors must be reported to the U.K. Electoral Commission. Watt resigned on Nov. 26. Brown, now back in Downing Street, summoned journalists to his monthly...
...knew that St. Lawrence was going to come out and possibly dominate,” Kessler said, “but I think it went the opposite...
...reputation, but he doubts Chirac risks becoming the first French president to ever be convicted by one of the nation's courts. "There will be some sort of blame or fault assigned, but it probably won't go to conviction," Moïsi predicts. "The French already knew the details in these cases, and fully expected Chirac would be implicated by judges for them. So this is really a non-event: a matter of French justice following its course. Right now, people in France are far more focused on the strikes and their outcome than they are Jacques Chirac...