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Take the Serbs, whose leader, Slobodan Milosevic, is most to blame for the horrors. Serbs remember vividly what happened on a late spring day 603 years ago, June 15, 1389, when Prince Lazar tried to stop the advancing army of the Ottoman sultan Murad I, 150 miles south of Belgrade. Lazar's army was crushed, and Serbia fell under Ottoman rule. That epic defeat has roughly the same significance for Serbs that the destruction of King Solomon's Temple has for Jews...
...Slovenes had Slovenia, the Croats Croatia, and the Macedonians Macedonia, but the Yugoslav Albanians never had a republic of their own. Instead, they were concentrated in the province of Kosovo in southern Serbia. Worse luck still, that piece of real estate included the site of the famous battlefield where Lazar lost to Murad...
...Most Serbs, however, regard Kosovo as holy ground, the cradle of their nationhood, because of 1389 and all that. It has never helped relations between the two communities that Albanians are predominantly Muslims, while Serbs in the region have tended to see themselves as descendants of Lazar, defending the eastern frontier of Christendom against the encroachments of Islam. During the 1980s, this classically Balkan imbroglio played a key part in the rise of Milosevic, who in turn has contributed so crucially to the disintegration of Yugoslavia...
...There are a number of leading graduate schools of business which because of their research and teaching programs deserve to be in the top category," said Jeffrey D. Lazar, public relations coordinator for the Graduate School of Business Administration...
Dermatologist Paul Lazar of Northwestern University Medical School found that women use 17 to 21 grooming products every morning...