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...Barry Wahlberg to get the final out of the ninth with a man on third, and Wahlberg appeared to have gotten the job done when Chernoff popped his pitch to shallow right. But Farkes, racing backwards while pursuing the tough play, fell backward and lost the ball, allowing Adam Balkan to score. With the Crimson already struggling and Pauly still on the mound, there would be no second rally...
Kokkalis has donated more than $5 million to the KSG’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe. The program, established in 1997, sponsors research to help Balkan states become democratic and capitalist, according to its website...
...MAN’S LAND. Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s debut film about the recent Balkan wars won Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards last year. With Rene Bitorajac and Branco Djuric as two enemy soldiers trapped in the same trench. Bosnian and French with English subtitles. Free admission, with an introduction by director Tanovic. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
During the Balkan conflicts in the mid- and late 1990s, agency paramilitary officers slipped into Bosnia and Kosovo to collect intelligence and hunt for accused war criminals like Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic. But the newly formed teams did not have enough manpower for snatches even when they were able to pinpoint Serbian targets. "The CIA," complains a former senior Clinton aide, "didn't have the capability to take down a three- or four-car motorcade with bodyguards...
Frist would do well to follow that old congressional rule: Watch out for your friends in politics; they'll make more trouble for you than your enemies. The 51 Republicans in the Senate are about as unified as a Balkan parliament. Moderates like Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee are always in danger of defecting to the Democrats. Mavericks like Senator John McCain will constantly stray off message. Though Frist's voting record is practically identical to Lott's, conservatives distrust him as a latecomer to their causes. Emboldened by G.O.P. control of both houses and the fact that...