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...course, it is not very nice to want to keep interesting, helpful things to oneself, even though there is something inherently delightful in taunting I-know-something-you-don’t-know—the best restaurant in town, a cool dive bar, an obscure, postmodern Croatian novel. As with any secret, though, there is immense desire to spill it, hence the high price of a secret. Once, if, you decide to share, you want to be claimed as the true bearer of the earth-shattering insight. And nothing is worse than sharing a secret that everyone already knows...
...greeted my holy receivers, a Croatian greeting that literally means...
...Gracanica before realizing the emblem would not likely sit well in a town filled with minarets, where vandalizing the old Orthodox Church is a favorite area hobby. The Pope had come on a mission of reconciliation and peace. What I’d seen were fervored Catholic Bosnians waving Croatian flags, a great deal of frustrated Serbs in military regalia and a nation that was on the whole much less excited than me about seeing John Paul...
Riot Acts SERBIA Dozens were injured in Belgrade riots following the arrest of war-crimes suspect Veselin Sljivancanin, the Yugoslav army colonel indicted for the slaughter of more than 200 prisoners of war in the Croatian city of Vukovar in 1991. Sljivancanin, 50, was arrested by Serbian police in his Belgrade home after spending almost eight years as a fugitive from the Hague-based U.N. war-crimes tribunal. He was one of the first people indicted, and one of the last major war-crimes suspects still at large. The arrest triggered violent protests by hard-line nationalists who tried...
...DIED. JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during...