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...easy. The mountainous, heavily forested terrain is tailor-made for insurgency, and some of the trails and networks the Kosovo Liberation Army (k.l.a.) used to transport arms into Kosovo in the late 1990s can be followed the other way. Robertson issued a call for more troops to strengthen the stretched resources of the 42,000 kfor troops currently in Kosovo, but none of the countries deployed, least of all the United States, expressed any enthusiasm about beefing up their presence there. NATO officials say they're "not talking about thousands of troops," and that they're confident someone will pony...
...generosity could inspire such tensions. But Harvard does have an interest in maintaining strong relations with Cambridge, since the city's decisions have significant effects on the University. Moreover, the schoolchildren of Cambridge are certainly no less deserving than their Boston counterparts. The University should therefore strengthen its commitment to Cambridge afterschool programs so that its efforts here are at least proportional to the Boston initiative...
...best way to disavow the memo is to implement the living wage and strengthen the anti-sweatshop campaign," said McKean, who is also a Crimson editor. "For me, though, that memo is a troubling indicator of what might be to come...
...sparked some very Shakespearean gossip by introducing his own, competing version of campaign finance reform. Hagel's approach would place a $60,000 limit on individual soft-money contributions, triple the limits (now $1,000) on contributions to specific candidates, and - this is the part Hagel swears by - strengthen disclosure requirements...
...Chisinau Moldova's Communist Party scored a surprise comeback in parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...