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...Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed at a center set up by the Red Cross, they kept their distance. But the things they held in common -- a loss of home, a hatred of the violence -- drew them closer. Now they operate the center together, coordinating the lives...
...home has become a threat, not a refuge. Last week at the center in Kosmaj, four-year- old Natasha ran up to her mother in tears. A boy had taunted Natasha, saying she had to return home to Mostar in Bosnia, where the girl had recently spent three weeks underground. "Don't worry," her mother soothed. "We won't ever go back to Mostar again." When the little girl smiled, the mother looked as though she would...
Scheme Z was part of a plan to depress the elevated Central Artery underground. Under Scheme Z, four bridges over the Charles River would connect the state's newly depressed Artery with Interstate...
Immediately, Turow was given a $4000 advance towrite about his law school experiences. Theresult, One L, was published in 1977 duringhis senior year at the school, and has been hailedby Time magazine as the "underground,pass-along classic among law students...
Winer is a self-appointed member of the Square's cafe culture--a sort of underground society that frequents the crowded hangouts where hermits cuddle in the corner with Hume, where chess masters with unkempt beards wage war for a dollar, where Jimi Hendrix impersonators make the cappuccino quiver with their electric guitars...