Word: jelena
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...wasteland of girls' tennis dads, an oasis of stability. Peter Graf's tax crimes and social infidelities polluted Steffi's final years as a champion; Pierce's belligerent dad was barred from the stands on the women's tour; at Wimbledon the Australian prodigy Jelena Dokic fought to a semifinal berth only after her father, having stormed the grounds ranting, got himself nabbed by police. The screwiest thing Richard Williams did at the All England Club was to not show up for his daughters' showdown. He couldn't take it; he went for a walk. He returned on Saturday...
...Then again, who cares? One Williams is sure to advance, and one is sure to lose. Try choosing instead between poor Jelena Dokic, whose own dad was escorted out of the All England Tennis Club for cell-phone smashing, intemperate flag-waving and profane anti-Clinton diatribes, or the real buzz underdog, publicity-deprived Lindsay Davenport, who actually prefers it that...
While the war is ripping apart the intricately entwined ethnic mix of the old Yugoslavia, the makeshift arrangements of the dispossessed sometimes forge new bonds. Jelena Pekez, 27, a Croat from the Bosnian town of Jajce, is married to a Serb. Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed...
...meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup of the nation. Jelena Milojevic, head of the Yugoslav Socialist Alliance, vowed that Communist youth organizations would oppose "chauvinistic and separatist groups." Said she, in a statement that could apply to much of the region: "Self-proclaimed leaders blinded by hatred are appearing from the darkness of the past and using any means...
...urgent SOS that echoed through a Prague street last week was banged out on the horn of a locked car by Pavel Kohout, the internationally acclaimed playwright, and his wife Jelena. Surrounding them were Czechoslovak policemen, with revolvers drawn. Having futilely pulled on the handle, the angry police pried open the door with a crowbar and dragged out the frightened couple. After beating Pavel, police shoved the playwright and his wife into a van and drove off to the Ruzyně detention center just outside the capital...