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...looks like the space race all over again -- and just like the Sputnik beat the United States into orbit, the Russians got into Kosovo before anyone from the West. And that?ll be a blow to a lot more than just NATO?s pride, because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings...
Whereas NATO had envisaged dividing Kosovo into sectors run by its major members, Russian General Leonid Ivashov warned that Moscow wouldn?t "beg the U.S. to provide it with our own sector of Kosovo," but would simply "declare our sector and agree on this question with the Yugoslav side" if talks with NATO failed to resolve the issue...
McCombe, who wears a black Russian hat with an off-kilter security guard emblem, says he believes that the University has been unreasonably slow in its negotiating tactics. He jokes, but only partially, that the "S" on his hat stands for security and not slave...
...Attorney Donald K. Stern-who in 1996 negotiated a $775,000 settlement with Harvard over improprieties in an unrelated case involving its pharmacy-is currently investigating HIID's work consulting for the Russian government in the early 1990s. During this time, members of the HIID team allegedly used their positions for personal gain...
HIID lost the remaining $14 million of a $57 million grant from the U.S. government that financed the Russian effort...