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Although some of the survivors of Bosnia's 1992-95 war traveled by bus to the Hague in the Netherlands to watch the opening day of the trial against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, their trek was in vain. The former psychiatrist and onetime President of the breakaway Serb Republic was a no-show on Oct. 26. Depriving spectators the chance to see the man who had eluded prosecution for genocide and war crimes for 12 years, Karadzic flouted authority once again. Because he is representing himself, no lawyer was present to explain Karadzic's absence. The judge adjourned...
...center should be very proud of its impatience for action,” he said. “Crime rates in Bosnia are now lower than they are in Sweden. 230,000 Bosnian refugees returned to their homes in a year...
...except for Whitewater and, for the most part, the Monica Lewinsky scandal), this book will be a boon to historians. The casual reader, however, might delight more in Branch's glimpses of an unguarded President: cold-stricken and hunched over a kitchen table in boxer shorts, or discussing Bosnian air strikes while simultaneously filling in one of his ever present crossword puzzles...
...James Simpson, who introduced Armitage at the Woodberry event.In recent years, though, Armitage has turned to the subject of war in his work. In 2008 he published “The Not Dead,” a collection of poems inspired by the testimonies of veterans from the Gulf, Bosnian, and Malayan wars. He is currently contemplating a trip to Afghanistan to produce a documentary for the BBC and to gather material for poems based on conversations with British troops. Armitage says he is aware that such a project would be fraught with ethical and logistical difficulties...
...increased budget cuts, Harvard’s formal Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian language courses have been removed from the curriculum. The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures’ “E Series”—a sequence of two beginning courses in these three related languages as well as a more advanced tutorial—has been terminated due to the budget cuts which “left virtually no corner of the FAS untouched,” Julie Buckler, chair of the department, confirmed. Instead, students who demonstrate a need to learn these languages...