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Macedonia has historically been a Greek region but is currently part of Bulgaria--a fact which in the past caused considerable tension between Greece and Bulgaria...
Hussein Kamel: We left Baghdad at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 7. We said we planned to attend a conference in Bulgaria [and would travel there via Amman], so it was an official motorcade with security. When I arrived at the Iraqi border crossing, they never even asked me for my passport. We arrived in Amman at 3:30 in the morning of Aug. 8. I don't know Amman very well because on previous trips all our arrangements were taken care of by Jordanian protocol. It was rather difficult to reach a hotel. We found a taxi...
...champion the idea that it would be better for children to languish in temporary foster homes than be adopted into families of another race," says Smolowe, "I had to work hard to separate the reporting from my feelings." Senior editor Lee Aitken, whose daughter Sophie, 4, was adopted in Bulgaria, argues that in stories like this, firsthand experience can make for better journalism. "At some point, the adoption ordeal always brings you face-to-face with your most basic values," says Aitken. "You have to be very honest with yourself, and Jill knew that instinctively...
...latest figure available. An estimated 2 million of Serbia's 10 million people live below the poverty line. The embargo also limits the country's ability to make an industrial recovery. Sanctions-busting on a grand scale -- mainly through Romania and Bulgaria and, to a lesser extent, Macedonia -- keeps stores filled with all manner of goods, but few people can afford them at whatever price...
...first the magazine's book and theater departments, then its news sections. She edited dozens of PEOPLE cover stories, including those on the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the Baby Jessica DeBoer case. The latter was particularly meaningful to Aitken, a single parent who adopted her daughter Sophie, 3, in Bulgaria after a two-year search for a child. "Lee has an amazing way of expanding the dimensions of a story, making it grow beyond the confines of its narrative," says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, a former PEOPLE editor himself. "She will remember past incidents that give resonance to present...