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...among the nearly 1 million ethnic Albanians forced to flee Serb ruler Slobodan Milosevic's attempt to "cleanse" them from Kosovo. It was amid the endless lines of U.N.-issued tents in the Senokos camp in Macedonia that I first met this boy, known to his friends as Dani. As a reporter covering the Albanian exodus, I would talk to scores of refugees. But Dani, who was then 14 years old and looked no more than 10, would prove to be a one-in-a-million encounter...
...same mix of passion and purpose that made this undersized kid stand out in a dusty refugee camp eight years ago has a very different significance today. Dani embodies the frustrations and hopes of a generation of Kosovars eager for a way out not just from Serbia, but also from a dysfunctional tradition of top-down, tribal politics. At the age of 22, he has become the kind of man who can help Kosovo achieve the political maturity and ethnic comity it so badly needs. The question is whether he and those like him will get that chance...
That day when I first met him, Dani greeted me in choppy English that he'd learned largely from watching Hollywood movies on TV with his dad. He soon became my volunteer guide and interpreter in the camp. We spent long hours together, chronicling tragic stories of death and displacement. Though his English was a work in progress, we quickly found a way of communicating where to go, what to ask, and when it was time to politely decline another strong coffee and move on to the next tent. Dani took the task very seriously, telling me he believed...
...forward Craig Henderson hit that target, scoring the game’s only goal and handing the Crimson its second Ivy loss of the year. Thirty minutes into the first half, Henderson, who was standing about six yards away from the goalmouth, received a pass from teammate Dani Rothenberg. With his back to the net, one defender on him, and another quickly converging, Henderson made a quick spin move and fired a left-footed shot past the outstretched arms of diving senior goalkeeper Adam Hahn. “I kind of got unlucky on that goal,” Hahn...
...This is really the first time that he’s getting this close to actual policy,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79, who has taught alongside Unger at the Kennedy School. “He’s been involved in politics on and off in Brazil for sometime…but this is obviously a tremendous chance for him to actually be in a position where he can actually get things done...