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...Where?" Slobodan Milosevic asked softly. "The Hague," said the warden. Milosevic nodded, changed from his sweatsuit to an open-necked shirt, and joined his armed escort. They made their way through the central prison's corridors toward a small rear door, where a white-and-blue police van was waiting. He was whisked to a helicopter pad outside Belgrade and met by agents from the United Nations war-crimes tribunal. Six and a half hours later, the man whose policies had ignited a decade of brutal, fratricidal Balkan wars was in the Netherlands, where he will stand trial...
...Greta Van Susteren is host of CNN's The Point
...women on business, a trouble-free environment is key. "Female frequent travelers have concerns about their safety," says Michel Van der Hoeven, manager of Singapore's Gallery Evason. "They always ask to be close to the elevator, to reception." Gallery Evason was the first hotel in Asia to reserve a floor for women, served by female staff, when it opened this spring. Doubles start at $86; to reserve, call (65) 849-8686. Since then, the Novotel Atlantis in Shanghai's Pudong district has set aside its 43rd floor, under the name Club Femme. Doubles...
...Ollson, head of Asia for Best Western, says the world's biggest hotel chain has yet to find significant demand for female-only facilities. "It's not like women execs need bodyguards," he says. "I really don't think we want to spend money on this." But replies Van der Hoeven: "It's not about money. Look at any hotel. Look at the size of the robe, the slippers: they're based on males. At the end of the day, it's about good service...
...van pulls away and I step back into my exhausted trot, I realize that Caroline is of Lowell now in a way that her mother, father, aunts and uncles never will be. She's history, like her grandmother. She's the little girl who got whacked at the Spinners game...