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...KOSOVO Roadblock Clashes NATO peacekeepers broke through road blocks and clashed with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo, hurling stun grenades and tear-gas canisters and leaving one woman dead and 10 other people injured. The clashes followed an attempt by U.N. administrators to set up a tax collection point on a road leading into northern Kosovo, legally part of Serbia...
...points out that while no concrete studies have been conducted analyzing the psychology of victims and the death penalty, people deal with tragedy differently. "For some, watching McVeigh die will finally bring some kind of closure to their loss," Bowser says. "For others, the execution may be a real roadblock on their path to recovery...
...second roadblock is the administration, which should provide more funding and support for House Committees. Currently, Quincy's student government revenue predominately comes from two areas. The first is a $600 grant from the Council, which translates into about $1.35 per House resident. The second is from laundry and soda machine revenues, which leaves us enough money to fund our House formals in December and May. With roughly one-sixteenth of the student population residing in Quincy House, this amount is grossly inadequate to fulfill the administration's goal of creating a student population that facilitates social and intellectual growth...
...Jackson was quick to insist that the issue was "not about black and white, it's about wrong and right," but his presence helped point up another angle to the Democratic challenge: complaints of what some black voters believed were subtle forms of racial intimidation, such as the police roadblock that was set up on voting day about a mile from a minority-neighborhood polling place in rural Wakulla County...
Earlier in the day, however, Katherine Harris, the Republican Florida secretary of state, announced that all tallying of votes in the state must finish by 5 p.m. today. Harris' move is a major roadblock for Gore, as Democrats say three of the manual recounts that they requested are unlikely to be completed by that time...