Word: bosnian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...until 3 a.m. perfecting her proposal. “The most difficult part of the application process was coming up with the idea—thinking of something substantial that could happen in one summer,” Kobiljar said. In high school she organized fundraisers to benefit a Bosnian orphanage, and she spent the past two summers working for Friendship Without Borders at a camp in Sarajevo designed to help children traumatized by war. “From comparable projects in the past, I knew there was a willingness to rebuild and an enthusiasm for participating in these kinds...
ZELJKO KOMSIC, Croat member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Hague did not find Serbia guilty of genocide in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, reflecting widespread shock among the victims...
...firm of landscape architects keeps being robbed by an acrobatic young man. Will (Jude Law), one of the practice's partners, traces him and enters into an affair with the boy's mother (Juliette Binoche), who's a widowed seamstress trying to put the miseries of her Bosnian past behind her. The affair is perhaps understandable because Will is unhappy at home. His partner Liv (Robin Wright Penn) has a near autistic daughter, whose care obsesses and distracts Liv. Eventually order and forgiveness are imposed on these troubled lives...
...Bosnian Serb politicians go, Milorad Dodik was considered one of the good guys. The former businessman took over the job of Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic in Banja Luka shortly after the end of the Bosnian war in 1995, helping to purge the local government of cronies of the wartime leader Radovan Karadzic. He battled [an error occurred while processing this directive] corruption and helped international investigators send indicted war criminals to the Hague. But these days, Dodik sounds like a changed man. In the past two months he has questioned the underlying agreement that ended...
...like to share with the Muslims but they do not want to share with us," says one friend. "They want to take over." This month's election campaign has opened up a sharp new divide between Bosnia's leaders over the future of the two entities. Silajdzic, the leading Bosnian Muslim prime ministerial candidate, says he would like to see them dismantled in "a year or two." He explains: "A minority of 23.8% [Serbs] can block the whole country. We should be a citizen-based, and not an ethnically-based, country." He favors what he calls a new "dialogue" with...