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Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld has accused CUP of infringing on academic freedom in the wake of its decision not to publish Anastasia Karakasidou's study on Greek-Macedonian identity...
...famous photographer, Aleksander (played by a fine actor of the former Yugoslavia, Rade Serbedzija), who has become famous and burned-out taking pictures of war and its victims, returns to his native Macedonian village seeking peace. What he finds instead are Christians and Muslims feuding bitterly. He is at last caught in the kind of deadly cross fire he had managed to elude elsewhere...
...wardrobe merely hints at a larger linkage that Manchevski, a young Macedonian filmmaker who somehow ended up at Southern Illinois University and moved on to music videos, wants to make. It is put simply by a doctor who is a minor character in his film: "War is a virus," meaning that, in an era of ethnic and religious conflict, the disease can be carried everywhere by impassioned terrorists and can infect anyone-in this case the young priest, the isolated Anne (who works as a photo editor, coolly studying images of violence) or even the seemingly well-inoculated Aleksander...
...events match the drama and romance of a major archaeological discovery. It's no wonder, then, that the world was buzzing last week when a team of Greek archaeologists working in Egypt said they had found the tomb of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King who died...
...find. "We are sure," Liana Souvaltzi, head of the Greek team, said today, indicating three limestone tablets describing how the ancient world's greatest conquerer came to rest at the tomb, in the western Oasis of Siwa. Her team also found carved oak leaves worn in the crowns of Macedonian kings and an engraved eight-pointed star -- Alexander's own symbol. But several Egyptian and U.S. experts tell TIME the tomb could be anything from a later Roman construction to a mere pointer to where Alexander is really buried, to a showcase for tablets that might have been transported from...