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...Pristina, the Kosovo capital, black-masked Serb police dragged Albanians out of their homes, force-marched them to a railroad station and packed thousands into locked trains bound for Macedonia. Says a senior State Department official: "The numbers are staggering. We have a huge humanitarian disaster on our hands." The roads leading out of Kosovo were trails of suffering. At least 500 elderly Albanians, too sick and weary to go on, were abandoned by the roadside on the way to Rozaje. On Friday NATO spokesman Shea reported that a six-mile line of some 25,000 refugees had formed...
...down in about as many hours as it took Melissa to make it around the world. The fact that a suspected virus writer got caught was unusual enough. Even stranger were the bedfellows who beat a path to his door: a Boston software entrepreneur, a Swedish student, a deputy state attorney general, the nation's largest Internet service provider, a whole passel of antivirus experts and the FBI. What these sleuths found, and where they found it, may become a blueprint for nabbing future digital delinquents...
...State police picked Smith up last Thursday night at his brother's house. It was 72 hours since they'd been contacted by AOL, five days after Richard Smith contacted the FBI and a little less than a week since Melissa was posted. David Smith was released on $100,000 bail, and is scheduled to be arraigned this week. If convicted, he is expected to face about seven years in jail...
...came abruptly, grabbing attention like fingernails scratching a chalkboard. As Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer stepped into his new role as czar of the city's public schools last week, he began the dirty work of dismantling one of the nation's most ineffectual public bureaucracies. Armed with a new state law giving him authority over the city's 265 public schools, Archer swiftly demoted the city's elected school-board members to unpaid advisers and stripped them of such perks as corporate credit cards, cell phones, pagers and even office keys. He suspended all new employment contracts. And he turned...
...former state supreme court justice, Archer is known for long deliberation before he acts. Not much studying was required here: only half of Detroit's high school students graduate, most basic supplies--from textbooks to toilet paper--somehow have trouble making it into schools, and teachers routinely walk out on strike. While Archer has succeeded in reducing crime and luring Big Business since taking over as mayor in 1994, he says the city's decades-long flight of middle-class residents can't be reversed unless the city's schools get better. "Any mayor in the country will tell...