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...sending an awful referee, so here was Howard Webb handing Austria an unwarranted lifeline via a ridiculous penalty call deep into injury time in its game against Poland. Webb whistled Mariusz Lewandowski for a shirt pull in the box as players jostled each other before a free kick, and Ivica Vastic dispatched the spot kick to make it 1-1. Lewandowski was doing what he and every other defender had been doing their whole professional lives. "I don't know why the referee saw what nobody else saw," said Poland coach Leo Beenhakker. "Maybe he just wanted to show...
...gears of the German passing machine. Germany center midfielder Michael Ballack spent the day spewing misdirected passes all over the pitch, never quite finding Mario Gomez or Miroslav Klose. Croatia's leprechaun middleman Luka Modric, in the meantime, was dancing around the pitch with the ball, often picking out Ivica Olic, who scored the second goal when a deflected shot from the right went past German keeper Jens Lehmann, hit the post and fell perfectly to the Croatian forward. No one seemed to enjoy the game more than Croatia's antic coach, Slaven Bilic. Diamond in his ear, good luck...
...governing alliance between the Democrats and the Socialists will be uneasy, but far from impossible. Under Ivica Dacic, a youngish leader who took over the party after Milosevic's death in 2004, the Socialists have discarded much of their nationalist ideology and focused on social issues, which explains their relative success in Serbia. Neglecting the country's pauperized working class, which faced massive job losses and severe cuts in social benefits during Serbia's bumpy road to capitalism, was one of key mistakes of Serbia's pro-Western politicians after Milosevic's fall. With the Socialists in the government, this...
...alone deal with such a serious matter as the continuation of the trial or a request for a retrial," Tomanovic told Serbian radio station B92. In Belgrade Milosevic's supporters, invigorated after forming an alliance with newly-elected Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, are triumphant. "The trial has collapsed," Ivica Dacic, a former aide to Milosevic and a leader of his Socialist Party of Serbia, told reporters. "Even if it resumes, Milosevic's defense will easily prove that all charges against him are false." But Milosevic's opponents aren't giving up. "The trial is way too important to fall through...
...Bottle, New Wine CROATIA The nationalist opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ,) triumphed at parliamentary polls, bringing an end to the center-left government of Prime Minister Ivica Racan, below, after almost four years. The HDZ won 62 out of 140 seats, enough to forge a government after picking a junior partner from among about a dozen small parties. HDZ leader Ivo Sanader has committed himself to bringing Croatia into NATO...