From arlindab1 at hotmail.com Thu Dec 2 20:07:42 2004 From: arlindab1 at hotmail.com (Arlinda Broja) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:07:42 -0500 Subject: [NYC-L] ***Support Albanian Pride: Vote Agnesa Vuthaj, Ms. Albania, for Miss WORLD*** Message-ID: Hi everyone, I thought it would be a great idea that we support our fellow beautiful sister, Agnesa Vuthaj, to become Ms. World. Forward this email to any one who can vote! ***Support Albanian Pride: Vote Agnesa Vuthaj, Ms. Albania, for Miss WORLD*** Vote Online at: http://missworldvote.streamos.com/voteform.php Agnesa's pictures and personal interview can be found at: http://www.missworld.tv/bio/bio.sps?iBiographyID=11527 Thankyou! Arlinda _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ? get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From vanchristo at frosina.org Fri Dec 3 10:57:07 2004 From: vanchristo at frosina.org (Van Christo) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:57:07 -0500 Subject: [NYC-L] ***Support Albanian Pride: Vote Agnesa Vuthaj, Ms. Albania, for Miss WORLD*** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41B08CD3.9050700@frosina.org> Hello Arlinda: For your information, I also posted news about Agnese Vuthaj to the Frosina Forum at http://www.frosina.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=942&PN=1 Te fala, Van Christo Arlinda Broja wrote: > === NYC-L: New York City Discussion Forum === > > Hi everyone, > > I thought it would be a great idea that we support our fellow > beautiful sister, Agnesa Vuthaj, to become Ms. World. Forward this > email to any one who can vote! > > ***Support Albanian Pride: Vote Agnesa Vuthaj, Ms. Albania, for Miss > WORLD*** > > Vote Online at: > http://missworldvote.streamos.com/voteform.php > > Agnesa's pictures and personal interview can be found at: > http://www.missworld.tv/bio/bio.sps?iBiographyID=11527 > > Thankyou! > Arlinda > > _________________________________________________________________ > FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! > http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > > ____________________________________________________ > NYC-L: A discussion and information list of the > Albanian community in the New York City Metro Area. > To post to the list: NYC-L at alb-net.com > For more information: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/nyc-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From vbelegu at hotmail.com Sun Dec 5 03:27:42 2004 From: vbelegu at hotmail.com (V B) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 02:27:42 -0600 Subject: [NYC-L] ***Support Albanian Pride: Vote Agnesa Vuthaj, Ms. Albania, for Miss WORLD*** In-Reply-To: <41B08CD3.9050700@frosina.org> Message-ID: Wow I am so pleased that someone is willing to spend time to informing us how to vote for Miss World or Miss what ever the hell this is. I seem to have read of the days when the leaders of the Albanian commmunity based in Boston wrote words that promoted the Albanian culture and values. Nowdays, our organizations seem to be content with promoting the values imposed on us. Whoever, is willing to propagate this email think, if you had a little girl, would you want to her to parade herself in a bikini so that she can earn a "scholarship" and go on to promote "cultural values." To add to the injury to us Albanians she says "I?d engage myself with charity and definitely follow Mother Theresa?s deed and mission." Well kid, you are already on the wrong track. My goodness, when are people gonna learn not to invoke the name of a saint for their pitiful selfish agenda. And, please do not reply to this email. From asajjc at yahoo.com Tue Dec 7 23:29:00 2004 From: asajjc at yahoo.com (Albanian Students Assoc.) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:29:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NYC-L] =?iso-8859-1?q?John_Jay_College_Event=3A_Discussion_Pane?= =?iso-8859-1?q?l_for_Kosovo=92s_Transitional_Government_=26_Award_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Night?= Message-ID: <20041208042900.960.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE Albanian Student Association Discussion Panel for Kosovo?s Transitional Government & Award Night 12/09/04 Theatre Lobby T Building Time: 3:30-5:00; 5:00-9:00 After the war in Kosovo a transitional government was set up by the U.N. This government is giving the impression of being a trusteeship to the Kosovo?s people. Jacques Fomerand, professor at John Jay will discuss the difference between the transitional government set by the U.N. and trusteeships. He will also shed light on the various problems that surround this issue; especially the fact that Kosovo is not yet an independent state. Dorian Pavli, previously a senior attorney/researcher for the Humans Rights Watch will discuss the disappointment that this system has brought to the Kosovo?speople and the international community. & The discussion panel will be followed by awarding the previous executives for their unending devotion, tremendous effort, and high achievements for the promotion of the Albanian culture in the John Jay community. Food, drinks, and Albanian traditional music will be part of the program. Come and enjoy with us the hospitality and generosity for which the Albanian culture is so famous for. Paid for By Student Activities Fee ______________________________________________ please send this e-mail to anyone who might be interested --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From mentor at alb-net.com Sat Dec 18 14:24:23 2004 From: mentor at alb-net.com (Kosova Crisis Center News and Information) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:24:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kosova Crisis Center (KCC) News: http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4102761.stm By Matt Prodger BBC Belgrade correspondent Serbia has returned the remains of what are believed to be 44 Kosovo Albanians who were killed in 1999 and buried in a mass grave outside Belgrade. It was the largest handover of bodies since mass graves were discovered outside Kosovo three years ago. As the remains arrived at the UN checkpoint separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, relatives and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj were waiting. The bodies had been exhumed from a pit at Batajnica police training ground. It is one of three mass graves containing more than 800 victims that were uncovered in Serbia in 2001. No arrests Some 10,000 people died during the Kosovo war - most of them ethnic Albanians. More than 3,000 are still missing and it is a highly charged issue. The authorities in Belgrade have been criticised for being slow to return the bodies discovered in mass graves in Serbia proper. They failed to convict anyone in connection with the killings, which are thought to have taken place in Kosovo before the bodies were trucked to locations around Serbia. And they have consistently refused to arrest and hand over four generals indicted by The Hague war crimes tribunal for their actions in Kosovo. Associates of one of the indictees, Nebojsa Pavkovic, said on Thursday that he had no intention of surrendering. ______________________________________________________________ If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message to: kcc-news-unsubscribe at alb-net.com , or visit KCC-NEWS's page at: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/kcc-news From nr146 at columbia.edu Sat Dec 18 14:35:09 2004 From: nr146 at columbia.edu (nr146 at columbia.edu) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:35:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo Message-ID: <200412181935.iBIJZ9c7003190@elderberry.cc.columbia.edu> This person is no longer employed at the university. Please re-send any business inquiries to Tom McNamee, Departmental Administrator, Italian Department: tnm3 at columbia.edu, 212-854-2308 Personal email address for Nereida Rama is: ikatrini at yahoo.com ---------------- Original follows ---------------- >From nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com Sat Dec 18 14:35:09 2004 Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [216.133.77.15]) by elderberry.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBIJZ8Kj003184; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:35:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [127.0.0.1]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F8510C82B7; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:29:55 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: nyc-l at alb-net.com Delivered-To: nyc-l at alb-net.com Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [127.0.0.1]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C61B10C82E6; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:25:27 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: kcc-news at alb-net.com Delivered-To: kcc-news at alb-net.com Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [127.0.0.1]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0206E10C82BC for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:24:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:24:23 -0500 (EST) From: Kosova Crisis Center News and Information To: Kosova Crisis Center News and Information Message-ID: URL: http://www.kmentor.com X-Loop: MENTOR MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:25:21 -0500 X-BeenThere: kcc-news at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:29:55 -0500 Cc: Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo X-BeenThere: nyc-l at alb-net.com Reply-To: "Albanians in New York City Discussion Forum (New York City, USA)" List-Id: "Albanians in New York City Discussion Forum \(New York City, USA\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com Errors-To: nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.59.71 === NYC-L: New York City Discussion Forum === --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kosova Crisis Center (KCC) News: http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4102761.stm By Matt Prodger BBC Belgrade correspondent Serbia has returned the remains of what are believed to be 44 Kosovo Albanians who were killed in 1999 and buried in a mass grave outside Belgrade. It was the largest handover of bodies since mass graves were discovered outside Kosovo three years ago. As the remains arrived at the UN checkpoint separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, relatives and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj were waiting. The bodies had been exhumed from a pit at Batajnica police training ground. It is one of three mass graves containing more than 800 victims that were uncovered in Serbia in 2001. No arrests Some 10,000 people died during the Kosovo war - most of them ethnic Albanians. More than 3,000 are still missing and it is a highly charged issue. The authorities in Belgrade have been criticised for being slow to return the bodies discovered in mass graves in Serbia proper. They failed to convict anyone in connection with the killings, which are thought to have taken place in Kosovo before the bodies were trucked to locations around Serbia. And they have consistently refused to arrest and hand over four generals indicted by The Hague war crimes tribunal for their actions in Kosovo. Associates of one of the indictees, Nebojsa Pavkovic, said on Thursday that he had no intention of surrendering. ______________________________________________________________ If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message to: kcc-news-unsubscribe at alb-net.com , or visit KCC-NEWS's page at: http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/kcc-news ____________________________________________________ ---------------- Remainder omitted here ---------------- From jeton at hotmail.com Sun Dec 19 12:21:33 2004 From: jeton at hotmail.com (Jeton Ademaj) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:21:33 -0500 Subject: [NYC-L] fwd NYTimes Magazine article Message-ID: thought people would find this nytimes editorial interesting... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19LIVES.html LIVES Too Hot to Handle By LINDSAY MORAN Published: December 19, 2004 When I finally ''broke cover,'' A.'s respect for me, even though I was a woman, increased exponentially. We were sitting in his Mercedes next to what appeared to be a city dump near Skopje, Macedonia's capital. ''I love C.I.A.!'' he exclaimed loudly. A., a jovial and dapper businessman I had been developing for the autumn months of 2000, was an Albanian well connected to a number of significant Kosovars. The agency was interested in Kosovo, the contentious region bordering Macedonia to the north, and so far, A. had given me solid information. Weeks earlier, I cautioned A. that it was too risky to meet publicly. ''We can use my friend's apartment!'' he suggested. ''Your car will do,'' I replied. ''How would you like to work for the C.I.A., too?'' I had written up a careful ''pitch proposal'' and sent it back to headquarters, outlining how I thought the recruitment meeting would play out. ''C/O Hadley anticipates little risk of blowback in executing the pitch,'' I'd written, referring to myself by my alias in the third person as is characteristic of C.I.A. case officers and also, I often considered, insane people. ''C/O Hadley doubts that Subject ever would report the pitch or C/O's true affiliation to the local police or security services.'' After a nanosecond of consideration about the implications of committing espionage, A. shrugged and said, ''O.K.'' The C.I.A. never said recruiting an agent could be this easy. ''You cannot tell anyone,'' I told him. ''Not even your wife.'' ''I never tell my wife anything,'' he answered with a wink. ''And if anyone catches us together, or asks how you know me. . . . '' I braced myself. ''Tell them we're having an affair.'' A. was nearly beside himself with enthusiasm. ''If we must do it, then we will make sex.'' ''We don't actually have an affair,'' I told him. ''That's only our cover story -- for if we get caught. I give you money, and you give me information. Just like you've been doing.'' ''No holding hands?'' he asked. ''It's business. Serious business, O.K.? Because if you get caught, you could go to jail.'' ''Bah!'' A. waved his hand. ''We will not get caught. I will tell everyone we are making sex.'' I pictured A. bragging about his young American concubine to a rapt audience at the Albanian pizzeria. ''Don't tell anyone anything,'' I said. ''O.K., O.K.'' A. rolled his eyes as if I were a huge bore. I pulled out a secrecy agreement for A. to sign, as well as 10 crisp $100 bills. I sensed that he couldn't pass up this chance to prove to himself that he wasn't a small fry. While he had been relatively easy to recruit, he continued to be difficult to handle. ''Why can we not have relations?'' A. again pleaded, as we drove along a mountainous southern Macedonian thoroughfare. I don't get paid nearly enough to deal with this, I thought. He looked beseechingly at me from behind the steering wheel. ''Keep your eyes on the road,'' I said. ''Do I have to remind you? You're married.'' ''Ach!'' he groaned. ''Here, it is normal to be married and have some other girlfriends too.'' I was less concerned about his amorous intentions than I was about his getting caught. He didn't pay much attention to the security measures in which I had diligently trained him. ''Never call me on the phone,'' I had said countless times. ''We'll just meet at the time and place we agreed upon, and if one of us doesn't show up, we go to Plan B.'' ''Of course!'' He appeared offended that I reminded him. Inevitably, I was on the way to one of our prearranged meeting sites when my mobile phone would ring. From the caller ID, I could see that A. was not even using a pay phone, as I had instructed him to do in an emergency. Often, I just let it ring. But occasionally, anxious that something had happened to A., I would answer, hoping that my voice conveyed my exasperation. ''Lisssaaaaa!'' he would shout, no matter how many times I had instructed him not to use my name, even though it was an alias. ''I am on my way to . . . the place . . . now.'' Sometimes I arrived at the designated meeting spot, where he was supposed to be skulking imperceptibly among the shadows, to find him in the middle of the road, chatting on his mobile phone. Once he even had a bouquet of vibrant flowers that he used to flag me down, like an aircraft router guiding a plane to its gate. I always worried for A., but in the end he remained blinded by the allure of the C.I.A. What never got easier for me was having to feed his ego while making it clear that I'd never sleep with him. Lindsay Moran is the author of a memoir, ''Blowing My Cover: My Life as a C.I.A. Spy and Other Misadventures,'' to be published next month by G.P. Putnam's Sons and from which this article was adapted. From nr146 at columbia.edu Sun Dec 19 12:22:22 2004 From: nr146 at columbia.edu (nr146 at columbia.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:22:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NYC-L] fwd NYTimes Magazine article Message-ID: <200412191722.iBJHMMkj016966@marionberry.cc.columbia.edu> This person is no longer employed at the university. Please re-send any business inquiries to Tom McNamee, Departmental Administrator, Italian Department: tnm3 at columbia.edu, 212-854-2308 Personal email address for Nereida Rama is: ikatrini at yahoo.com ---------------- Original follows ---------------- >From nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com Sun Dec 19 12:22:22 2004 Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [216.133.77.15]) by marionberry.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBJHMLRr016946; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:22:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [127.0.0.1]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A427010C8306; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:22:17 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: nyc-L at alb-net.com Delivered-To: nyc-L at alb-net.com Received: from hotmail.com (bay20-f12.bay20.hotmail.com [64.4.54.101]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7A410C8306 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:22:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:22:03 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 216.194.20.227 by by20fd.bay20.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:21:33 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.194.20.227] X-Originating-Email: [jeton at hotmail.com] X-Sender: jeton at hotmail.com From: "Jeton Ademaj" To: nyc-L at alb-net.com Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:21:33 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2004 17:22:03.0005 (UTC) FILETIME=[416132D0:01C4E5EF] Cc: Subject: [NYC-L] fwd NYTimes Magazine article X-BeenThere: nyc-l at alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Albanians in New York City Discussion Forum (New York City, USA)" List-Id: "Albanians in New York City Discussion Forum \(New York City, USA\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com Errors-To: nyc-l-bounces at alb-net.com X-Spam-Score: 0.036 () MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.59.100 === NYC-L: New York City Discussion Forum === thought people would find this nytimes editorial interesting... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19LIVES.html LIVES Too Hot to Handle By LINDSAY MORAN Published: December 19, 2004 When I finally ''broke cover,'' A.'s respect for me, even though I was a woman, increased exponentially. We were sitting in his Mercedes next to what appeared to be a city dump near Skopje, Macedonia's capital. ''I love C.I.A.!'' he exclaimed loudly. A., a jovial and dapper businessman I had been developing for the autumn months of 2000, was an Albanian well connected to a number of significant Kosovars. The agency was interested in Kosovo, the contentious region bordering Macedonia to the north, and so far, A. had given me solid information. Weeks earlier, I cautioned A. that it was too risky to meet publicly. ''We can use my friend's apartment!'' he suggested. ''Your car will do,'' I replied. ''How would you like to work for the C.I.A., too?'' I had written up a careful ''pitch proposal'' and sent it back to headquarters, outlining how I thought the recruitment meeting would play out. ''C/O Hadley anticipates little risk of blowback in executing the pitch,'' I'd written, referring to myself by my alias in the third person as is characteristic of C.I.A. case officers and also, I often considered, insane people. ''C/O Hadley doubts that Subject ever would report the pitch or C/O's true affiliation to the local police or security services.'' After a nanosecond of consideration about the implications of committing espionage, A. shrugged and said, ''O.K.'' The C.I.A. never said recruiting an agent could be this easy. ''You cannot tell anyone,'' I told him. ''Not even your wife.'' ''I never tell my wife anything,'' he answered with a wink. ''And if anyone catches us together, or asks how you know me. . . . '' I braced myself. ''Tell them we're having an affair.'' A. was nearly beside himself with enthusiasm. ''If we must do it, then we will make sex.'' ---------------- Remainder omitted here ----------------