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...presidents of two Eastern European nations urged integration with the rest of Europe at the Institute of Politics last Friday, the first time two heads of state have ever shared a stage at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In their remarks, President Stjepan Mesic of Croatia and President Boris Tadic of Serbia focused on the normalization process currently underway in the region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire...
...another company, checking the quality of the tuna as it is off-loaded at Sevilla's refrigerated warehouse in Barbate, and who refused to be named. "That is because [in Japan] we have nothing left to fish." Environmentalists want the rules tightened. At iccat's next meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in November, environmental groups and the U.S. will be attempting to crack down on overfishing. But Bregazzi is gloomy. "You are talking to a very pessimistic man," he says. "Bluefin tuna is on the verge of collapse, if not collapsing as we speak." WRANGLING The debate over who controls...
...another company, checking the quality of the tuna as it is off-loaded at Sevilla's refrigerated warehouse in Barbate, and who refused to be named. "That is because [in Japan] we have nothing left to fish." Environmentalists want the rules tightened. At iccat's next meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in November, environmental groups and the U.S. will be attempting to crack down on overfishing. But Bregazzi is gloomy. "You are talking to a very pessimistic man," he says. "Bluefin tuna is on the verge of collapse, if not collapsing as we speak." Wrangling The debate over who controls...
...being covered in the column remain anonymous until immediately prior to printing, which occurs after the market closes on Wednesday,” she wrote. Plotkin and Pajcin would use their insider knowledge to purchase shares and options through the accounts of Pajcin’s aunt in Croatia and an exotic dancer whom the analysts met at a “gentleman’s club.” Mikhail Plotkin, Eugene’s father who reportedly acted on stock tips he received from his son, has also been indicted. Plotkin and Pajcin were eventually caught when...
...centuries after the first foreigners arrived, Bombay is once again attracting fortune seekers from far away. Yana Gupta's journey began in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1988 when she was 9 and her mother Dedenka stitched money and jewelry into her two daughters' clothes and took them on vacation to Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown the seeds...