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...tune of the Dire Straits song "Brothers in Arms." The owner and editor in chief of Nacional, a high-circulation weekly that often probed into Croatia's corruption-ridden political life, Pukanic was a controversial figure, widely seen as closely involved with mobsters and politicians alike. Croatian President Stjepan Mesic had been his close friend, as had Hrvoje Petrac, a businessman currently on trial for extortion...
...other senior officers, the Pentagon has maintained that none did anything wrong. But Stjepan Mestrovic, a Texas sociologist who has testified as an expert witness at several Abu Ghraib trials, calls the Pentagon's attempt to blame the scandal on a few low-ranking "bad apples" little more than "magical thinking...
...presidents of two Eastern European nations urged integration with the rest of Europe at the Institute of Politics last Friday, the first time two heads of state have ever shared a stage at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In their remarks, President Stjepan Mesic of Croatia and President Boris Tadic of Serbia focused on the normalization process currently underway in the region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire...
...foreign ministers said Croatia's accession talks would start once it was established that Zagreb "is cooperating fully" in finding Gotovina. "We have to convince our friends in the E.U. that we are doing everything we can to find out where the fugitive general is," Croatian President Stjepan Mesic told TIME. "The only thing I care about is how to start the talks as soon as possible." That may not be what Mesic's countrymen care most about, though. Two years ago, two-thirds of Croatians supported joining the E.U.; less than half do so today, according to polls. Brussels...
...Croatian President Stjepan Mesic drove in from Connecticut MTV For his performance, Eminem traveled from Sixth Avenue to the Radio City stage...