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...MACEDONIA Collateral Damage Macedonian forces continued pounding ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
...UNITED STATES Shell Suit The families of two Nigerian environmental activists last week won the right to sue the oil giant Shell in New York. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the company must face a suit that alleges it took land without paying proper compensation, polluted the environment and paid local police to suppress opposition. The suit also alleges that Shell companies fabricated evidence against activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Kpuinen, who were hanged...
...Tulsa.” After the riot the black population declined by about one-third. Newspapers at the time are filled with reports of blacks walking along the railroad tracks headed out of town, never to return. The most poignant photograph of the riot shows the burned shell of the Dreamland Threatre, its marquee fallen. Such was the trajectory of Tulsa’s black community...
...shortcomings of the production’s actors. There exist plenty of prose translations of Amphitryon; why director Darko Tresnjak didn’t opt for one of these remains a mystery. When not trying to read Wilbur’s poetry as one might read a Shell Sylverstein poem, the actors stumble through the lines as though they were written in prose. What seems like an attempt to stay true to the spirit of Molière’s original script ultimately comes across as something of a verbal fiasco...
...poll earlier this year and found that nearly 90 percent of their membership would be willing to pay more for airline tickets if it would help alleviate delays. Everyone, it seems, has collected a nightmare airline story in the past two years. And we all may be ready to shell out a bit more money for a little peace of mind...