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...sell ... Ping-Pong? In an attempt to generate more interest in the sport, table-tennis-equipment manufacturer Killerspin is touting Biljana (Biba) Golic, 27, as the Anna Kournikova of the game. Golic's skipping serves and skimpy skirts are a hit at pro table-tennis tournaments across the country; male fans sometimes wave signs proposing marriage at her. And her talent is for real: she was a two-time Yugoslav national champ in singles and mixed doubles, and after moving to the U.S. she won the 2004 national collegiate championship playing for Texas Wesleyan University. Golic downplays her potential role...
...battling the government of President Laurent Gbagbo since a failed coup on Sept. 19. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced thousands from their homes and heightened tensions between the largely Muslim northern regions and the predominantly Christian south. See Also: Cracks in the Ivory NETHERLANDS Guilty Plea Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Serb rump republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina and one of the main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict...
Unlike many of her fellow accused, Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic has voluntarily surrendered herself at the Hague tribunal to stand trial for war crimes. Why did she go willingly...
...float back to the top. These men pumped out heavily separatist and anti-Western propaganda while they obstructed the implementation of Dayton's provisions for reunification. Two weeks ago, as the delicately stitched-together nation seemed to be recovering, the Serbs in their republic voted out moderate President Biljana Plavsic, a key part of Western plans to build a unified Bosnia...
Peace in Bosnia may now demand a permanent Western presence, following the apparent triumph of Serb hard-liners in presidential elections. "Although the European election supervisors are holding back the result until next week, it does appear that [radical nationalist] Nikola Poplasen has beaten [moderate] Biljana Plavsic," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "And that's a serious blow for the West...