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...recognizing the crimes done in their name are having to rethink. And worse may lie ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected to dwell heavily on how Serbs are victims, not perpetrators, of the Balkan wars, a popular refrain at home. "Milosevic was politically dead before he was transferred to the Hague," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, a leading Belgrade editor. "The tribunal has given him the kiss of life." That is quite an achievement...
...twice the size of Texas, there are two and a half million residents—nearly a third of them huddled together in the capital city. To this day, nearly half the population consists of nomadic herders who keep goats, sheep, horses, yaks and camels for a living, and dwell in portable felt yurts, (ger in the local language) and move about the open range in search of pasture for their livestock. Infrastructure is simply nonexistent, with no paved roads, little in the way of electrification and old, unreliable phones only in the few village centers and gasoline rated...
...Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel. -"Heartbreak Hotel...
Shyamalan is a poet of grieving. His movies dwell in bruised hearts and work deftly to find stirrings there. At times he surrenders to a few horror-film tropes (an army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...
...instinct that the end is out there somewhere. We have a cultural impulse to imagine it--and keep it at bay. Just as all cultures have their creation stories, so too they have their visions of the end, from the Bible to the Mayan millennial stories. Usually the fables dwell in the back of the mind, or not at all, since we go about our lives conditioned to think that however bad things get, it's not you know what. But there are times in human history when instinct, faith, myth and current events work together to create a perfect...