Word: kosovar
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...crimes of the 1990s and go through the painful but essential process of breaking from the stranglehold of the nationalist ideologies that led to the wars," says Alvaro de Vasconcelos, director of the Paris-based E.U. Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) think tank. (See pictures of Mitrovica, a northern Kosovar town on the dividing line of Serbian-Albanian tension...
...recently been to Australia, Canada and Japan while promoting her lead role in The Silence of Lorna, the latest release from the Belgian directing duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Dobroshi's captivating performance as Lorna, a young Albanian immigrant, charmed international critics and made her the first Kosovar actress in history to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie won the award for Best Screenplay last year. (See pictures from the 2008 Cannes Film Festival...
...life, but early childhood is one of the few times when the classes mix. The free neighborhood baby-massage courses I attended saw migrant mothers and American corporate types bonding over lavender oil and breast-feeding. At our local northwest London playground, my kids share the swing set with Kosovar refugees and the children of hedge-fund millionaires. Government vouchers for day care broke down class stratifications during Nicola's toddler years. Her classmates were the children of cash-strapped single mothers, middle-class professionals and the rich - a few arriving in chauffeured Bentleys...
Serbs in the northern Kosovar town of Mitrovica are not sticklers for appearances. The stained cement façades are peeling away from drab 1960s-era high-rises. Dented satellite dishes teeter on balconies. Kiosks peddling photos of local heroes like Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb general indicted for war crimes, crowd out pedestrians along potholed sidewalks. But all over town there are flashes of brilliant color: red, blue and white Serbian flags fly from nearly every window, door and rusted railing...
...last depends in part on whether the E.U. mission can marginalize Serb hard-liners like Ivanovic. For that to happen, the U.N. Secretary-General will have to ignore Russia's griping about the illegality of Kosovo's declaration of independence and get on with handing over authority to the Kosovar government and the new E.U.-led mission - and soon. Then the real work begins: E.U. diplomats say the key to establishing a stable Kosovo will be to offer moderate Serbs there better economic prospects than the nationalism-tinged promises of Belgrade politicians and their Moscow backers. For that reason alone...