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THE NINE SKELETONS DUG UP LAST YEAR FROM A PIT NEAR Yekaterinburg, Russia, were not just any old bones: they were believed to be the remains of the murdered Czar Nicholas II and his family. If that were true, scientific examination of the remains could solve some of the mysteries...
The stories of savagery have come to define life in what was Yugoslavia. Whether they are fact or fiction is almost irrelevant: what people think is happening determines behavior. Serbs say that they fear the imminent imposition of a scourging fundamentalist Islamic regime in the heart of Europe, and that...
A. On any of those previous tours, when you brokered a deal, it was followed through. And if somebody along the line didn't follow through, they were put in their place. It's relatively easy to broker a deal in Bosnia. It's the execution that is impossible.
Politics, Bill Clinton has explained, is like football. Elaborate strategies are crafted in advance, but execution and stamina trump planning and practice. Reality defies theory, confusion reigns, new tactics are implemented on the spot. At some moments, the best defense is a good offense; at others, the best offense is...
Despite the official secrecy that cloaked the deed, an archive of accounts by both participants and eyewitnesses survived. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is...