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...book takes place in Mexico City, at the turn of the last millennium. Carla, an American in her early twenties, has the wanderlust of many people her age. She goes to Mexico because she is "sick of everybody" and because she wants to find the roots of her resented "disappearing Mexican dad." The reasons for her arrival and prolonged year-long stay become a central theme in the book, as Carla's ideas of Mexico, loaded with all kinds of cultural assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table...
General Ratko Mladic, one of world's most wanted fugitives, was arrested this week in Serbia after succesfully evading justice for more than ten years. Unfortunately for Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Mladic's arrest happened only in news flashes and newspaper headlines around the world. In real life, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb army indicted for reckless bombardment of Sarajevo and the slaughter of at least 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, remains as elusive as ever - despite mounting pressure on the Serbian government to deliver...
...Bijeljina. Soon it was picked up by several media outlets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, and then by major international news agencies and cable television news. The ensuing media frenzy lasted for days despite strong denials of the Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic is still at large. Even on Friday, some Belgrade newspapers claimed, quoting unidentified security officials, that Mladic was arrested by British special forces in Romania and placed in confinement at a secret location...
...evocations of international camaraderie, the Olympics are a lot about national pride. And so, beyond Dante, the peninsula trotted out stars to tout its culture: Giorgio Armani designing costumes; Sophia Loren carrying the Olympic flag; supermodel Carla Bruni slinking in with the Italian flag; Luciano Pavarotti singing Puccini's Nessun Dorma (Nobody Sleeps) from Turandot; Eva Herzigova (a Czech-born resident of Torino) starring as Botticelli's Venus on a half shell. A Ferrari roared onstage, the speakers blared the theme from Rocky (Stallone! The Italian Stallion!), and suddenly, after a magnificent dove formation by acrobats on gossamer thread, there...
...start of her speech at the Institute of Politics last night, United Nations (U.N.) prosecutor Carla Del Ponte addressed the problem of modern genocide with a single statement: “‘Never again’ did not work.” As Chief U.N. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Del Ponte shared her experiences prosecuting war criminals—including former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic—with a large gathering of undergraduate and graduate students in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In her first speech to an American university...