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...recent violence in Kosovo signals a rapid unraveling of authority in the already unstable region. The NATO intervention which promised to provide peace and tolerance to the ethnically divided area is understaffed and underfunded...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rebuilding Kosovo | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

HELP WANTED: Dynamic professional to lead venerable institution through period of rapid change and political tumult. Will manage more employees than Texaco has and a budget bigger than Cisco Systems'. Must answer to mayor, Governor, seven-person board, unions, press and public. Workweek: 80 hours plus. Compensation: around $140,000, about 1% of the average FORTUNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Superintendent...A Job For A Super Hero? | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Most people probably dream about monsters or romance or the future, but my rapid eye movement took me to some guy's basement for lessons on a Stratocaster...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: My Electric Vision | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Yesterday, Harvard-affiliated volunteers for the presidential campaigns made their final push, wrapping up an intense week of digging in the frozen ground to put up campaign signs, making rapid-fire phone calls and doing "lit. drops" for events with the candidates themselves...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Supporters Key to Final Push | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Running the Fed is an ever more complicated chore these days. Greenspan has to wrestle with whether he should curb stock-market inflation, not just consumer-price inflation, and whether he should tolerate rapid growth, hoping productivity gains keep wage and price inflation in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quit Now, Al | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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