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...record of teenagers racing old cars up and down Tel Aviv sand dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth - or you could just enjoy the boys' exuberance. All the short-listed Turner Prize works are turbulent and politically engaged. In Lagos-based Yinka Shonibare's Un Ballo in Maschera, elegant dancers...
...record of teenagers racing old cars up and down Tel Aviv sand dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth?or you could just enjoy the boys' exuberance...
...Marmi, Italy. Tokhtakhounov is accused of manipulating results in the ice dancing and pairs skating events so that gold medals would be awarded to the French and the Russian teams, respectively. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. SENTENCED. FIKRET (BABO) ABDIC, 63, once considered to be the richest man in Bosnia; to 20 years in prison for war crimes that led to the deaths of 121 civilians and three prisoners of war; in Karlovac, Croatia. Following the collapse of communist Yugoslavia, Abdic distanced himself from the Bosnian government...
...Monkeys!" they screamed. "Murderers!" "Go back to Serbia!" One of the worst incidents occurred in Sisak, where Croats began pulling people out of their vehicles and beating them; a woman later died from her injuries. In one of this war's strangest twists, more than 30,000 followers of Fikret Abdic, a Muslim who aligned himself with the Croatian and Bosnian Serbs, found themselves camped near the Croatian border, unwelcome anywhere despite an agreement between Abdic and the Bosnian government. "Do you think any country would take us?" Ibrahim Djedovic, once Abdic's chief of security, asked desperately. "Perhaps Singapore...
...republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, had issued up to $500 million in worthless IOUs to 63 Yugoslav banks and other enterprises. The revelations forced the country's Vice President, Hamdija Pozderac, to resign after the Belgrade newspaper Borba and other publications linked him to the scandal. Agrokomerc Chief Executive Fikret Abdic is in jail awaiting trial. At least six top Communist officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina resigned from their posts or were expelled from the party as a result of the scandal, along with dozens of lower-ranking figures. The ousters represented one of the few instances in which the press...