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TIME.com: Macedonia is turning into the next Balkan nightmare faster than anyone expected. Albanian rebels fought pitched battles Friday with the Macedonian police and army for control of Tetovo, the country's second city. Has a civil war become inevitable...
...fortunes of "Greater Serbia" went the way of Slobodan Milosevic; now the imperial vision menacing the fragile Balkans is "Greater Albania." Clashes between Albanian nationalist guerrillas and U.S.-trained Macedonian army units intensified Friday, despite the direct intervention by U.S. troops Thursday to drive the guerrillas out of their stronghold in the Macedonian village of Tanusevci. The guerrillas are remnants of the Kosovo Liberation Army who have taken their fight across the borders both into southern Serbia, where their objective is to annex the Presevo Valley, and into Macedonia, where they're attempting to seize control over predominantly ethnic-Albanian...
...Macedonia. Those developments have put Western troops, who are charged with controlling Kosovo's borders, on a collision course with elements of their erstwhile allies in the KLA who are now seeking new targets. U.S. troops on Wednesday wounded two ethnic Albanian guerrillas in a firefight near the Macedonian village of Tanusevci, marking a dangerous new escalation of the risk to NATO forces in the region. With Yugoslavia now ruled by a democratic nationalist regime more acceptable to the West, many in NATO would plainly be more comfortable having Yugoslav troops facing off against the insurgents than with putting Western...
...skunk showed me, those conversations must happen here too. It can be by talking with the man you sells flowers, with that TF who is truly impassioned about Macedonian life or that guy who lives two doors down whose name is still so elusive. The small investments of time will put markers in the rush of college, highlighting the moments that, unlike another Ec section, you will remember years from...
...example, the 22-year-old Macedonian King Alexander charged with his cavalry into the ranks of Persian forces at the Granicus River in what is now Turkey. A Persian soldier clubbed Alexander with an ax, but before he could deal a second and fatal blow, the King's bodyguard killed...