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When Kosovo Albanians first took up arms to free themselves from Serb domination in the mid-1990s, Ramush Haradinaj was working as a bouncer in a Swiss nightclub. He returned to his homeland and, on the strength of his battlefield wits and charisma, rose to become the most visible commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.), losing two brothers and surviving three wounds of his own. After the war, he launched a political party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), and following elections last October, at 36, he joined the ruling coalition as Prime Minister - completing the transformation...
...Markt, the "new market" in media and technology. Today Constantin is the only German production company that can go toe-to-toe with Hollywood. Eichinger makes films for the German market mixed with big productions co-produced with U.S. partners like The Never Ending Story, The Name of the Rose, or, more recently, the Resident Evil films. "It takes a lot of money to make a film," he says. "The average American film costs around $70 million to produce. The average German film costs just $6 million. If you want to do a bigger movie you have...
...Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking; 575 pages). Diamond, a professor of geography (surely an endangered species itself) at the University of California, Los Angeles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for the best-selling Guns, Germs, and Steel, his attempt to understand how Western nations rose to political and technological pre-eminence (the title gives you a pretty good hint). In Collapse, he's a little like the title character in Dr. Seuss's The Lorax: he perches on the smoking ruins of extinct societies and calmly explains how they fell--and why, in almost every...
...last time Harvard came out ahead of Trinity was in 2001, which was also the last time the Crimson won a national championship. In the following two years, the Bantams rose to become a veritable squash powerhouse, going undefeated in 2002 and 2003, and finishing with only one dual meet loss last season...
...less do not have to contribute any money, and those earning between $40,000 and $60,000 have to pay substantially less as compared to previous years. The result of this new program appears to be fairly clear, as the number of students asking for an application fee waiver rose 45 percent. While this percentage does not show exactly how many applicants will qualify under the HFAI, those requesting the waiver are very likely to be eligible for the HFAI. The increase in students seeking an application fee waiver is also a strong indication that the initiative has been well...