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...East, examining the ways revenge is treated in different cultures. Although at times the reader may wish for a stronger sense of chronology, the book skillfully combines personal journal with thoughtful analysis. Whether it’s in Sicily, where she learns of the Mafia’s ways, Albania, where she studies a popular local book that dictates acceptable methods of revenge, or Iran, where she talks with a Grand Ayatollah, her travels are at once enjoyable travelogues and fascinating cultural studies...
...collection of Eastern European comix imported by Top Shelf. Produced by the same group that did a strange and wonderful box of mini-comix last year (see TIME.comix review), "Stripburek" is a more straightforward collection of over fifty black and white works translated into English. Comix from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia are all here...
...dramatic improvements in the crime rates, social inclusion and health of users. A law allowing the cultivation, sale and use of marijuana is awaiting final approval by Parliament, probably next year. In Lausanne as a result, turf wars among the city's heroin dealers - most of them refugees from Albania and the former Yugoslavia - are rare and the city is developing an Amsterdamish attitude to dope...
...ethnic Albanians from Kosovo; Milosevic says they left because of NATO's bombs and Kosovo Albanian terrorists. Prosecutors say the former President was attempting to form a "Greater Serbia," or at least a Serb-dominated state; Milosevic says the West broke up Yugoslavia to create a "Greater Albania." Prosecutors say Milosevic's troops committed unspeakable massacres; Milosevic says his troops did not massacre anyone and he was just defending his country from domestic terrorists...
Three years ago, Yasin was in Albania, and though he did not work directly with HLF, he saw their commitment and strong presence, he said...