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...prison. (Petrac continues to deny the kidnapping charge.) Zagorec is also facing trial, accused of embezzling millions of dollars worth of jewels from the Ministry of Defense in the early '90s. The jewels had been intended for the purchase of weapons in Croatia's war with Serbia during the breakup of Yugoslavia. (The official story was that the jewelry had been donated by unnamed patriots to help Croatia's war effort, but some alleged it had originally been looted from Croatian Jews during World War II by the Nazi-aligned nationalist Ustasha militias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Wave Clouds Croatia's Future | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...track. Framed on top of some beautifully repetitive, pounding Sonic Youth fuzz, Barnes begins the album-long musings about his cracking and complicated relationships. How can the guy who wrote the music for the Outback Steakhouse commercial have relationship problems? On the rest of the album, Barnes eschews the breakup described in “Hissing Fauna” and spends most of his time describing, in hilarious detail, his various sexual desires and exploits. “We can do it softcore if you want,” he says; he wants to “make you come...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Montreal | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

There are some things that just don't need to be expressed, not on a record. Go back to Songs for Silverman, if you want to hear an album with 6 breakup songs. A lot of people didn't notice it at the time, but listen to the lyrics. I would have heard that and gone, "There's this big glowing dedication to this guy's wife on the cover, but listen to the center of it, there's something going on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Folds | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...teen movie icon Molly Ringwald) are splitting up. Other characters include Adrian, Ricky’s skanky and surprisingly booksmart girlfriend; Henry and Alice, Ben’s best friends who continue to have sex so they can “get it right” despite their recent breakup; Marc Molina, the hip school guidance counselor; and Ashley, Amy’s witty, monotone, pseudo-goth younger sister. I would explain how all these characters relate to each other, but I have to be somewhere by next Tuesday.Now before you jump to any conclusions like, “This...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TV Drama "Secret Life" a Bundle of Joy, Stupidity | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Since the breakup of The Soviet Union in 1991, its former republics have attempted to take different political directions. Most came together in the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.), which is still led by Russia. The Baltic nations joined NATO and the European Union in 2004--a course Ukraine and Georgia have flirted with recently--while the resource-rich Central Asian republics have remained largely loyal to Moscow. But after the invasion of Georgia, former members of the U.S.S.R. face an inescapable truth: you can't run from geography. Try as they might to move closer to Europe, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Former Soviet Republics | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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