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...cluster bombs on a village near the Kosovo city of Prizren. Images of civilian casualties function as a kind of counterweight to the refugees' tales of trauma, adding to the pressure for a diplomatic solution. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin heads back to Belgrade next week, this time accompanied by Finland's president, Martti Ahtisaari, who is reportedly acting as an envoy for the Western powers. With talks about talks continuing, the Serbs had better brace for at least several more days of bombardment...
...Eventually, they reunite after a long and complicated search that takesthem from their native Spain all the way to (I kid you not) northern Finland above the Arctic Circle where the sun never sets in the spring...
...Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply a product of chance. There is an overriding...
Eventually, they reunite after a long and complicated search that takesthem from their native Spain all the way to (I kid you not) northern Finland above the Arctic Circle where the sun never sets in the spring...
...Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply a product of chance. There is an overriding...