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...Best Actor in a TV drama, and though in real life he's a grandpa and, for 20 years now, a teetotaler, he betrays a bit of his character's roguish confidence. As soon as he landed the role, he says, he bought a house just down the coast. "I had a feeling it would go on for some time," he says...
...first view most of the world had of Dubrovnik was of its red-tiled roofs disappearing behind clouds of black smoke during shelling by Serb and Montenegrin artillery in the fall of 1991. The threat to this walled medieval city on the Dalmatian coast, with its Renaissance palaces, Titian masterpieces and lemon-scented cloisters, brought home the pointlessness and savagery of the Balkan wars. Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, recalls being horrified by the attack. "I could not believe," she says, "that someone--anyone--could have fired a single shot...
...bedroom converted to a sterile guestroom. Stripped of my pictures, the walls begged for personality. My bed had new sheets, charcoal gray, and the bookshelves were empty. The tightly woven strands of high school memory, made of the stuff of Hanukkah candle-lightings, of late-night drinking and Pacific Coast sunrises, of first kisses and baseball championships, had already begun to unravel...
...busy to visit clients, or too far from remote detention centers, advocates frequently make the trip instead. "We do the legwork," says advocate Rossell. When Farhad's court appeal was being prepared, Bernadette Wauchope, of Port Pirie, South Australia, and another volunteer from Byron Bay, on the north coast of New South Wales, spent more than 130 hours collecting evidence that would eventually verify his claims. "The people who succeed are those who have Australian people going in there and helping them untangle the mess," says Rossell...
...into the backs of heavyset men for $8 an hour. On the beachfront, more holidaymakers pile into caf?s to order pizza and hamburgers and fried shrimp and slurp down mango shakes. Anya and Toon Bakker, a retired couple from Holland, have traveled from their beach resort farther down the coast to spend a day at Patong. "We knew people here would need our business," says Anya. "We are not disaster tourists. We are not here to see the damaged buildings. We are here for the sun and the sea, but we are also here for the local people. They...