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...zone inside Serbia established as part of the cease-fire agreement that ended the war in Kosovo. The symbolic significance of that decision cannot be understated: It's a clear a message to the region's Albanian nationalists that NATO plans to respond aggressively to any further attempts to redraw Balkan borders - and that the Western alliance is prepared to underscore its position by force. U.S. troops wounded a number of Albanian guerrillas in firefights around Tanusevci earlier this week...
...state constitutional amendments also appear today for final voter approval. One would disenfranchise those incarcerated for felony convictions. Another would require the state to redraw election boundaries based on 2000 U.S. Census data for elections held in 2002, instead of waiting until 2004, which the constitution currently requires...
...There's a slippery slope argument," he said. "If the ASCR sticks to this point it's possible CCSR might redraw the line. It could take a couple of years...
...first time, both houses in the Virginia legislature boast a Republican majority. This historical turnover deals a serious blow to Senator Chuck Robb, the Virginia Democrat who's facing a tough reelection campaign next year. In addition, if state Republican lawmakers make good on recent threats, the legislature will redraw the lines to a number of congressional districts, thus potentially jeopardizing a couple of Democratic House seats...
When the darkness falls in Baghdad, you sit there looking out at the starry desert sky and you wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...