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...course, Macedonia and Kosovo are hardly unconnected. The Macedonian insurgency originated inside Kosovo, where NATO is supposed to be in charge of security. But the alliance has shown little inclination to effectively police the activities of Albanian nationalist guerrillas there, and it appears to have woken up rather late to the fact that those guerrillas were exporting an insurgency into Macedonia under NATO's very noses. Although it then moved very quickly to press the authorities to address the political grievances on which the insurgency was feeding, it did little to create disincentives for ethnic-Albanian nationalists to choose...
...makes up that violent fringe? Who throws the cobblestones and the gasoline-filled bottles? Ask national police forces--they too have woken up to the threat of violence at these meetings scandalously late--and they will tell you they are baffled. The world today, after all, is not that of 1968. No young Americans are about to be drafted to fight in an unpopular war; no young Europeans have their rights and pleasures routinely stifled by a jackbooted state. Indeed, never before have those who live in Europe and North America been so prosperous, so safe, so free to wander...
...Times woken up during Sunday nap by firecrackers set off ritualistically in courtyard of hotel...
Some Adams' residents have complained about a joke Kocher made in an email shortly after being woken up last Wednesday which read "(useless bastards) + Lampoon - (useless bastards) = (useless bastards...
...would be woken up when they had speakers out on Bow Street and they would play really loud music with a bunch of people dancing around outside," said Adam R. Abate `02 whose room used to look out on the Lampoon castle...