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...incendiary force. And increasingly the West has feared that they might start a fire in the Balkans, particularly among the Hungarians in Vojvodina or the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, who have twice the ethnic representation of the Montenegrins. By aligning Montenegro once again with Serbia, the EU can maintain the status quo—a fate much preferred to separation, which would come only with war and further hand-wringing...
...durable. "The sheep here are small, and they have a soft fleece," she says. "I've been told that the sheep that are put on the hills have a softer wool because they're eating a more coarse grass." The respected craft is diminishing, and Shetlanders are trying to maintain it among the younger generations by teaching it in the schools. "It's an underpaid sort of a craft," says Ina. "The young ones want to go out to work...
...have refused to go away. And two weeks ago Blatter's opponents within FIFA sought and were granted an internal audit of FIFA's finances, believed to have been sapped by significant losses after the collapse last year of ISL, FIFA's marketing partner. Blatter's opponents maintain they have him on the ropes, and they will soon get the chance to be proved right - or wrong. The next FIFA presidential election, for which Blatter put himself forward last month, will be held in Korea in May. The man who is taking Blatter on: Issa Hayatou, the president of African...
College, we are always told, is a time for learning tolerance, for having our preconceived notions challenged. That’s why Harvard works so hard to micromanage diversity, using randomization and blocking groups to socially engineer the student body, while relying on affirmative action to maintain the perfect mosaic, or tapestry, or whatever metaphor happens to be in fashion...
...Harvard College Library system rejected the Undergraduate Council’s proposal to extend Lamont’s hours. The council’s proposal would have extended library hours by one more hour each night, providing students with more time to study. Yet the decision to maintain the current hours flies in the face of many undergraduates’ academic needs...