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Hometown: Tirana, Albania...
...penchant for the Homeric simile is nowhere more apparent than on the slightly over-the-top “International Small Arms Traffic Blues,” with its memorable comparison “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee’s concept grows tired at times—one wonders in just how many ways this relationship can be described, but the arch to the album is successfully completed with the blithe...
...DIED. QUEEN GERALDINE OF THE ALBANIANS, 87, widow of King Zog and one of the last of Europe's exiled monarchs; in Tirana. Known as "The White Rose of Hungary" this former aristocratic beauty was finally permitted to return to Albania last June...
...evidence that North Korea is committed to reform. Meanwhile in Shenyang, north China, authorities detained Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs the North Korean free-trade zone of Sinuiju. Police questioned Yang about tax evasion as well as real estate and stock fraud. MEANWHILE In The Drink Albania's capital, Tirana, thought it had escaped Europe's summer floods. But a drunk dam worker changed that. Angry at being forbidden to drink on the job, the unnamed worker opened the floodgates. By the time the army stopped the flow, two days later, Tirana was under water...
...today,” wrote Rita Hamad ’03, former president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) and a close friend of Yasin’s, on the Eliot list. “And he defended the HLF based on his work with them in Albania, where he was doing public service work...