Word: kosovo
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...Kosovo, the air war went on for 70 days. But presumably here there are far more limits on what the U.S. can do from 15,000 feet, because the Taliban have far less military and economic infrastructure...
...together an all-star ensemble to record his new song What More Can I Give? He hoped, he said, to raise $50 million for the victims and survivors. This idea had a familiar ring to it. In April 1999 Jackson promised to raise millions for the Albanian children of Kosovo with the proceeds from his new song...What More Can I Give? But Jacko never recorded the song, nor did he perform it at two What More Can I Give? benefit concerts performed in Seoul and Munich in 1999, which raised a few million for big international charities. Executive producer...
...surgery for a Salvadoran boy with a deformed leg in exchange for providing a surgeon with a supply of crutches and leg braces. A range of Rotary Clubs and other service groups assist the Samaritan with logistics and funding so that he can mount missions as far afield as Kosovo, Kenya and Argentina. Through Airline Ambassadors, an aid group of airline employees, Gray grabs air-cargo space for his bulky shipments...
...essays in her new collection display a wide interest in literature, film, dance, photography, criticism and sometimes politics (though her 1999 essay on Kosovo is noticeably absent). The literary essays tend to deal with established but mildly obscure European litterateurs (Danilo Kis, Witold Gombrowicz, W.G. Sebald, Andrzej Zagajewski). The rest of the pieces stick to art films, opera and dance. Her inimitably terse prose is recognizable from her previous criticism, particularly her tendency to issue elliptical, almost aphoristic judgments at an essay’s end. In addition, a few creative pieces—one an accompaniment for a Jasper...
...plant was making chemical weapons but has quietly backed off the charge). They believe Western powers tolerated for too long--from 1992 until the NATO bombings in 1995--the ethnic cleansing by Christian Serbs of Bosnian Muslims and the later killings by Serbs of ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. Another grievance is the fact that the U.S. has done little to stop Russia's savage war against separatist Muslims in Chechnya because it considers the conflict an internal matter for Moscow. To Americans, all these matters are proof that it is a messy world out there. To many Muslims...