  The word Kondo means battle in Swahili. This coincidence is fortuitous
because in the Kondo effect, a battle inevitably ensues anytime a magnetic
impurity is placed in a non-magnetic metal. Below some energy scale, the Kondo
temperature ($T_k$), a lone magnetic impurity is robbed of its spin. Above the
Kondo temperature, rapid spin-flip scattering produces a temperature-dependent
correction to the resistivity of the form, $B_k\ln T$. Until recently, both the
Kondo resistivity and $T_k$ were thought to be determined solely by the host
metal and the magnetic impurity. However, numerous presentations in this volume
attest, there is now overwhelming evidence that both are affected by the size
of the sample as well as non-magnetic random scattering. In this paper, I will
focus on the theoretical work we have performed on the experiments revealing
that non-magnetic scattering suppppresses the Kondo resistivity in thin Kondo
alloys.
