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Four days later, police have no clues who the attacker was, but I have a pretty good idea what triggered the attack. On April 12, I was a guest on a local television show discussing the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Serbian troops led by General Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run from international justice. The TV debate centered on the April 10 verdict by a Serbian war-crimes court that sentenced four members of a paramilitary group known as the Scorpions for the execution of six Muslims from Srebrenica...
...attack was a reminder that six years after Milosevic's fall, Serbia is becoming increasingly violent, and virulent nationalism is on the rise again. There have been more than 100 politically motivated assaults in the past three months alone, and hate speech is increasingly common in the media and politics. The targets are human-rights activists, journalists and politicians who dare to stand up against the nationalists. One reason for the nationalist revival is the U.N.'s push toward independence for Kosovo, a province mostly populated by ethnic Albanians, but cherished as a historic heartland by most Serbs. Another...
...take the attack personally. Its target was really that part of Serbian society that believes we can't move forward until we've honestly confronted our past. And, judging by the response of the authorities, something positive may yet come out of the ordeal. Within hours, the director of Serbian police showed up to tell me that finding the attacker is a top priority. President Boris Tadic came over to express his support. Rade Bulatovic, the head of Serbia's main security agency, whom I had often criticized, phoned and offered help. Expressions of outrage and offers of help also...
...factor in particular made a decisive difference in its most recent win : winning draws. The Big Green dominated the draws and ended up controlling the ball for the majority of the first half. “Draw control was the big difference in the game,” sophomore attack Kaitlin Martin said. “Their offense had the ball more than our offense did.” That simple draw advantage meant more shot opportunities for Dartmouth. The Big Green had a whopping 20-shot advantage as it threw 35 at the net to the Crimson?...
...airtime that follow an attack like the one at Virginia Tech, mass murder is an exceedingly rare crime. The rate of killings in the U.S. involving five or more victims - one generally accepted definition of a mass killing - represented less than 1% of all homicides 25 years ago, and still does today. Among kids, the overall violence figures are actually plummeting, with the number of children under 17 who commit murder falling 65% between 1993 and 2004. Mass killing, says Diane Follingstad, a professor of clinical and forensic psychology at the University of South Carolina, "is a low baserate thing...