Word: ljubica
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...popular uprising. Voters are expressing their distaste, too. Leaving the parliament building after the deal was announced, Kostunica ran a gauntlet of angry ex-supporters who denounced the pact. "I voted for Kostunica, but I never expected him to deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with the SPS will also increase suspicion in the West, on which Serbia depends for aid. Kostunica's mistrust of the Hague tribunal, which he sees as an American political tool...
...Ljubica Milic was drenched with rain last Wednesday as she sat with her two sleeping children at an abandoned gas station on the road between Banja Luka, the largest city in Serb-held Bosnia, and Belgrade. As an equally sodden string of refugees streamed past, the young Serb from the Croatian village of Obrovac explained how she had been tricked by a war profiteer into making the worst deal of her life. "All I had was 200 deutsche marks [$139]," she says in a voice devoid of emotional inflection. "He asked me for 500 deutsche marks...
...back." But God left a couple of things behind: the gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer fork...
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