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...meantime, the Bonn-Moscow accord in all likelihood will lead to a European security conference, which the Soviets wish to convene-possibly in Helsinki-as a means of gaining full international endorsement of the status quo in Europe. In such a conference, which would be attended by the U.S. and Canada as well as all European countries, the participants would pledge to respect each other's boundaries; they would also discuss a mutual reduction of forces between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. The security conference would be, in fact, an updated version of the 19th century Congress...
Holl has long simmered on the edge of superstardom. Until now, he was best known for a handful of highly regarded projects: a superb little church in Seattle, a much talked-about museum in Helsinki. But his tough-minded aesthetic positions have sometimes worked against him. Last year the artist Richard Tuttle and his wife aired complaints in the New York Times about a guesthouse Holl had designed for them. Then last fall Holl exited a Denver courthouse project after a series of disagreements. So the Bloch building is not just a triumph; it's a timely one. Those five...
...hero's welcome such as Serbia has rarely seen: more than 50,000 people gathered in a central Belgrade square on Sunday night to welcome home Marija Serifovic, the winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to her arrival from Helsinki, police cleared the 16-km road from the airport into the city in order to speed her passage, and a banner draped across the City Hall read Ave Marija...
...Slobodan Milosevic. True to form, he caused an outrage recently by vowing to cut Serbia's ties with the West and eventually merge the country with Russia - no easy task, considering the countries are not neighbors. Nikolic was forced to resign only hours before Serifovic's plane landed from Helsinki. Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign," claimed Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic...
...singer appeared in the Serbian tabloid newspaper Press a few days before the contest took place. It claimed that an alliance of Western powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from Serbia, while Moscow sides with Belgrade...