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But new life is blossoming. As the peacekeepers of KFOR steadily pushed their heavy tanks and APCs into the province last week, refugees from Albania and Macedonia followed right behind, heading home from rapidly emptying camps in cars crammed with family members, in tractor-drawn carts sagging under their loads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes Of War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

On April 9, Annan announced a peace proposal which would stop the bombing once Yugoslavia withdrew its military forces from Kosovo and allowed the return of refugees. It also would have required an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's withdrawal. Annan's proposal is sound; it makes clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mess in the Balkans | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

The problems of migration and refugees, Fritz's "postcard from oblivion," are more pronounced than many people realize and will not disappear anytime soon. From 1989 to the mid '90s more than 50 million people were violently displaced from their homelands and much more than twice that amount left for...

Author: By Eric Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Huddled Masses of the 20th Century | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Nevertheless, there are some stubborn souls who refuse to recognize the superiority of life on this detached continent. They try to deny their Quad affiliations by spending all their time beating inter-house dining restrictions and other such discriminatory legislation meant to exclude these poor uprooted souls. Isn't their...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Abroad in the Quad | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Before shooting began, protesters staged sit-ins on Phi Phi Leh until local workers, waiting to start jobs guaranteed by the movie company, kicked them off the beach. "It was a very exciting day," says Macdonald. "These 10 wimpy Greens from Bangkok facing off against 60 to 100 of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The Swim Again | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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