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...Bosnia's latest elections have once again been convincingly won by nationalist parties in all three of the territory's separate ethnic communities. What message should the West take from the results...
...message they should take is that the Dayton Agreement has essentially frozen the political landscape in a way that the nationalist parties will continue to dominate. It's a challenge to the international community to rethink its policy in Bosnia. What Dayton did five years ago was to stop the war by more or less freezing the front lines, exchanging a bit of territory, and keeping the nationalist leaders happy by guaranteeing them a place in the future political order. The irony is that the nationalist parties in each community coexist and even cooperate with one another, and have done...
...most intriguing recruit may be Peljto, who hails from Minnesota but is originally from Bosnia. Averaging 27.2 points and 13.0 rebounds a game during her senior season at Osseo High School while leading her team to a State Championship, Peljto was named the Associated Press and Gatorade State Player of the Year...
Peljto and her family emigrated from Bosnia to the United States in 1995. It was a long trek for Peljto as she and her family escaped war in Bosnia, moving to nearby Slovenia. It was there that Peljto picked up basketball...
...Gore has a powerful instinct for the endgame, as he has shown in many budget battles, in his handling Bosnia and above all at the end of his losing presidential bid in 1988. It had been a brutal race, but he found a way to end it gracefully. More important than winning, Gore said, was "helping my party, serving my country, knowing when to keep fighting and knowing when I've been licked." Some people close to Gore saw in the results last week a popular mandate for his ideas; these were the people counseling Gore to fight...