“The situation in Kosovo was ripe for nonviolent struggle for the simple reason that the Kosovars outnumbered the Serbs 9 to 1,” theologian Walter Wink tells Messenger (May), the Elgin-based magazine of the Church of the Brethren. “That meant they had the numbers to launch massive forms of nonviolent struggle, like a general strike, which might have made it impossible for the Serbs to govern the country and made the Serbs more amenable to some sort of compromise. We don’t know if that would have worked or not….The other thing that is noteworthy is how incredibly ineffective the military people have been in trying to carry out this violent response in Kosovo….The hardest thing in the world for Americans to accept is the idea that there is nothing we can do.”
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The war between the sexes is over. According to “Philanthropy Journal Alert” (May 7), “Women control 51.3 percent of personal wealth in the United States.”
Two new aldermen won their seats despite being outspent by their opponents: Leslie Hairston (5th Ward) and Shirley Coleman (16th Ward). In all other runoffs the better-funded candidate succeeded, according to the Chicago Reporter (May).
