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...reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) he was nearly struck by a male driver while he was crossing the street in the crosswalk. When approached, the driver grabbed the pedestrian's arm and said, "I'm a police officer...You're under arrest!" The pedestrian demanded a badge from the suspect, but he left the scene without comment...
...That many Roma people worked for the Serbs ? usually as manual laborers ?- throughout their campaign of violence against ethnic Albanians is not in dispute. "Ever since Serbia withdrew Kosovo?s autonomy in 1989, the authorities have been reluctant to hire ethnic Albanians even as street cleaners," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Because they accepted employment by the Serbs at a time when Albanians were boycotting all Serb institutions, they gained a reputation for siding with the Serbs. But as is the case all over the Balkans and Europe, Gypsies have always been the lowest class of citizen...
Slobodan Milosevic?s opponents may have him on the ropes, but Serbia?s wily ruler is about to repeat his signature "rope-a-dope" trick ? creating a crisis, and then presenting himself as the only solution. As opposition street rallies demanding his ouster grow bolder, Milosevic launched his counterpunching strategy Thursday in the southern Serbian town of Prokuplje. Milosevic?s Socialist Party scheduled a rally of his supporters there at the same time ? and in the same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move...
Even opposition activists have been shocked by the willingness of ordinary Serbs to demonstrate against Milosevic in the wake of the Kosovo debacle. On Monday 20,000 people ? almost one third of the town?s population ? took to the streets of Leskovac in response to a call sneaked into a basketball half-time show by a local TV technician. But even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic...
...started by testing two inexpensive scanners: UMAX's Astra 2100U and Astra 2000U (each sells for $129, street price). I assume the UMAX folks sent along the 2000U to demonstrate the obvious superiority of its brother. The machines are nearly identical, and do 36-bit color scanning relatively fast (about 30 sec. for an acceptable 300-dpi resolution of a snapshot). The difference is that the 2100U has buttons on the front for one-click scanning or copying. (Yes, copying. Just drop a document or photo on the scanner, hit the copy button, and the image transmits directly to your...