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Optimism, as dissident Czech writer Milan Kundera once opined, is an opiate. And its most practiced traffickers, of course, are politicians. But optimism is an indulgence military and intelligence professionals can scarcely allow themselves. And that makes the U.S. intelligence community's new report on our world 15 years from now, "Global Trends 2015," a cold-water corrective to some of the sunny nonsense about globalization that passes for conventional wisdom in Washington...
Performance artist MILAN KOHOUT talks about his work with the Roma people (Gypsies) of the Czech Republic at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, at Mobius, 354 Congress St., Boston. For more information, call...
...Milan Popelka...
...NATO bombing that dashed an impoverished economy into visible ruins, the bitter years of sanctions and international opprobrium. Domestic repression and self-serving propaganda had reached critical mass, draining away the last vestiges of his once genuine popularity. "The underlying discontent, up till now only flickering, burst out," says Milan Milosevic, a political analyst at the independent Belgrade weekly Vreme. "Everything needed to make the change possible was suddenly there...
...gold. The first is that he might repeat Atlanta. There, just as he was planning to pass the great Morceli on the last lap, the Algerian's heel and his own knee met. El Guerrouj crashed to the track, and then staggered home last. He beat Morceli in Milan only a month later, but "l'accident" is a ghost that he must exorcise in Sydney. "Hicham needs that medal," says a member of the Moroccan track federation. "He can't miss this. Psychologically, it would be the end of his career...