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...Many of the rank-and-file guerrillas and regional commanders openly express their enthusiasm for a "Greater Albania" - the mirror image of Slobodan Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" campaign, which spawned separatist military campaigns among the Serb minorities of Serbia's neighboring states. But their leaders insist they got most of what they wanted out of the Skopje political agreement, and the time has come to put down their weapons. And those leaders have plenty of reasons to crow about the outcome. Three months ago, NATO leaders were still denouncing the NLA as "terrorists" and "murderers in the hills"; now fresh...
...same time, it's hard to imagine the rebels handing over all their weapons. Regardless of the political pronouncement of their NATO-sensitive non-combatant leaders, many rank-and-file fighters in the National Liberation Army make no bones about the fact that their objective has been to create an Albanian enclave joined to Kosovo as part of a "Greater Albania." NLA commanders may persuade their men of the wisdom of standing down right now, but the idea of handing over their entire arsenal is unlikely to have much appeal to the fighters - particularly since NATO will presumably act more...
...guerrillas' intentions remain the $64,000 question, and nobody confidently knows the answer. Many of the rank and file members of the guerrilla army say they're fighting for a "Greater Albania." The question is whether their commanders believe it's worth pressing forward with that objective at this point. Some may argue that they've done extremely well in their campaign thus far, and that it might be a wiser course of action, right now, to accept the peace plan and consolidate what they've gained. They may see "Greater Albania" as a long-term project...
...earthy to the point of raunchiness?who makes movies that are very much like their creator. And they have made Feng China's most successful contemporary film director. Three of Feng's recent films?Sorry, Baby (1999), Be There, Be Square (1998) and Party A, Party B (1997)?rank in China's top-five grossing movies to date. Now the jumble-toothed, shorts-wearing, former stage designer is setting his sights on winning viewers outside China. Last month, he wrapped up the shooting of a black comedy called Big Shot's Funeral, which stars China's Ge You (known...
According to Stuart Rojstaczer, a geology professor at Duke University, and inventor of the Rank Your College website, college rankings are just a scam—and rankyourcollege.com is no more arbitrary than any other ranking...