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...Western leaders found it difficult to argue for an alternative. "Now that Russia has cast its lot so effusively with Serbia," said one Western official, "I don't see another five, six or 10 months of talks providing any significant benefits." Fed up with the stonewalling, the U.S. and major E.U. countries such as France, Britain and Germany have now signaled their readiness to recognize Kosovo, though a handful of smaller E.U. states like Spain and Cyprus may yet withhold formal recognition, worried that such a concession might encourage separatists on their own turf...
...disappointing that you didn't include a profile of Patriarch Bartholomew, head of the Greek Orthodox Church, as one of the heroes. He is known as the Green Patriarch because of his keen interest in protecting the environment. He has gathered representatives of the world's major religions for conferences that call attention to the consequences of environmental destruction. The meetings have been in the form of symposiums held aboard ships that have toured the coast of Greenland, the Black Sea and the Amazon and Danube Rivers. He would have had a deserving place in your special issue, showing that...
...There were no major issues about content,” Wasserman said, adding that McLoughin has been supportive of the magazine throughout the process. With official status, she added, H Bomb—well known for including photographs of naked undergraduates—can advertise and distribute on campus, receive grant money, and use the Harvard name...
...sports columnist Linda Robertson wrote this week that Taylor's shooting death "will reinforce negative opinions of football fans and recruits who were wary of UM and Miami." To their credit, the university and its president, Donna Shalala, are trying to clean things up. The recruiting standards of most major college football programs are a cynical joke when it comes to scholarship and character; UM football is known for being less scrutinizing than most 17th-century pirate vessels. But when former Hurricanes coach Larry Coker in 2004 recruited a Miami teen, linebacker Willie Williams, whose arrest record was longer than...
...motorbike is the symbol of Vietnam's economic transformation over the past 20 years thanks to reforms allowing private enterprise. Often as not, a newly moneyed family's first major purchase was a shiny Honda Dream. Fifteen years ago, the country had only 500,000 motorbikes; today, there are 22 million. But Vietnam's love affair with the motorbike has come with a price: besides the death toll, the non-profit Asia Injury Prevention Foundation reports, a further 23,000 riders each year suffer debilitating brain damage from injuries that could have been prevented by helmets...