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...peaceful separation of Kosovo from Serbia. But Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are on the verge of scuppering the already deadlocked talks by unilaterally declaring independence. And Serbia, backed by Russia, remains loudly opposed to Kosovo's independence under any circumstances. "We're looking at a slow-motion train wreck," says Tomas Valasek, a Balkan specialist at the London-based Centre for European Reform. While a new war is unlikely, and there is a slim chance that a deal could be salvaged, the Balkans appear poised once again to reveal the stark limits of international diplomacy...
...year the storied Queen Anne's Revenge was lost near North Carolina. Masters connected the dots, finding a reference that made him think he could locate where the Blackbeard-hijacked ship had sunk. Masters contacted experts and secured permits, and in 1996 divers unearthed an unusually complete wreck widely believed to be the Revenge. Masters was 70 and had cancer...
...overdramatic fashion, I am a paranoid wreck for the rest of the day before I tentatively broach the subject with...
...left on Avenida dos Bandeirantes, we saw that a third building behind the first two was still on fire. I did not see a single body in the four hours I spent at Congonhas. I did not witness distressed relatives. But the sight of the flaming wreck and the amputated tail of TAM flight JJ3054 will haunt me—and Brazilian aviation—for years to come. Matthew S. Blumenthal ’08, a Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo...
...right ratio of experience to fresh talent. Dodge & Cox hires only one or two analysts a year. Starting in the 1980s, that became a problem as the firm began covering foreign companies. Dodge & Cox could have hired a big batch of analysts but decided not to, fearing it would wreck the apprenticeship model. "If you hire five people at the same time, they all start going to lunch together," says president Ken Olivier, a member of the U.S.-stocks committee. And as years passed, there might not have been enough promotions to go around. So instead, the firm added research...