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...Vitus in the Christian Orthodox calendar--had written itself into the history of the Balkans. On St. Vitus day in 1389, Serbs were defeated by the Turks at the battle of Kosovo Polje, the event that launched Serbian claims to eternal victimhood. On the same day in 1914, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, plunging Europe into World War I. And on the same day in 1989, Milosevic--speaking at Kosovo Polje--launched his career as the defender of Serbian nationalism. Twelve years later, he finds himself imprisoned while his country is broken, indebted and marred...
Reaction in Belgrade was muted. A rally hastily organized by Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia drew just 3,000 diehards. Nationalist anthems blared from loudspeakers, but the protesters soon drifted away. "Those were the days," said Petar Gracanin, a Milosevic crony who was once Yugoslavia's Defense Minister, sounding almost wistful. Close by, young Serbs ignored the fuss. "Let them have their protest," said Jelena Savic, 19, a law student, buying ice cream. "It's their last one. Thank God it's over...
...entire nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch...
...quietly encourages the idea of a military build-up because that would enable the U.S. to shift some of its hardware and staff elsewhere. The rest of Asia, particularly China, would react differently. Koizumi has already perturbed neighbors by revealing a conservative nationalist streak. He has said he'll visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, a war memorial where veterans, including some convicted war criminals, are entombed. He has also refused to stop the publication of textbooks that whitewash Japan's aggression in World...
Justice knocked at six in the evening last Thursday for Slobodan Milosevic. It was St. Vitus' Day, a date steeped in Serbian history, myth and eerie coincidence: on June 28, 1389, Ottoman invaders defeated the Serbs at the battle of Kosovo; 525 years later, a young Serbian nationalist assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, lighting the fuse for World War I. And it was on St. Vitus' Day, 1989, that Milosevic whipped a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy in the speech that capped his ascent to power...