Word: uniform
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...helps, of course, that Serbs are a captive audience. Most independent media were closed down or co-opted as soon as the bombing started, and throughout the country there is a uniform hum of pro-Milosevic, anti-Western diatribe. What's more, the bombing has become less terrifying to Serbs. The sirens still sound at 8 o'clock each night in Belgrade, but the wail is now muted. The residents of the embattled city have given the sirens an affectionate nickname, "Esmeralda," after the popular Mexican soap opera that used to appear on Serbian television at 8 p.m. Increasingly...
...plan to stay and serve the community in a different capacity," he said, his daughter Lauren tugging at the leg of his uniform...
...From the road it is easy to spot Serb-held towns in the valley below, many marked by rising columns of smoke. Ammunition boxes are stacked in small crevices. Soldiers huddle near fires made from the empty crates. Serbian shells scream continuously, reverberating through the canyons. Soldiers, some in uniform, others in track suits, carry everything from bolt-action carbines to Kalashnikovs. There are two questions: Where is the commander, and where are the Serbs...
Zehir Kryeziu, 29, is a former car painter in Germany who, with two days' training, was thrown into the battle on Wednesday. Lying in a grimy hospital bed in nearby Bajram Curri, still wearing his mud-caked uniform, he says he was carrying supplies to the assault forces when he was hit in the groin with shrapnel. "I had to walk for 24 hours holding my wound closed," he says. "When I got out of Kosovo I had to stop a local car and persuade the driver to take me to the hospital...
...they aren't letting go. In the past two weeks 33 universities have signed on to a plan designed by the Fair Labor Association, a consortium of human-rights groups and manufacturers like Nike and Reebok, to come up with a uniform code of conduct for the apparel industry. Though the agreement has won the backing of the White House, a core group of student leaders has joined UNITE in opposing it as inadequate...