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...else. The obscure 56-year-old constitutional lawyer is an unlikely savior of his nation. He is calm to the point of being boring. He has labored for years in the backwaters of Serbian politics without making much of an impression. As a staunch anticommunist - and a zealous Serb nationalist who criticized past Yugoslav leaders for compromising Serb rights - he riled communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica refused. Considered...
...Milosevic's worst nightmare, not simply because he's more popular with voters, but also because he may be sufficiently acceptable to the military and other Serb elites to allow them to finally jettison a leader who presided over a decade of disaster. Kostunica, after all, is a nationalist - albeit comparitively moderate - and firmly opposed to NATO. He's even vowed that, if elected, he won't hand Milosevic over for trial in the Hague. But he's also a democrat who has promised to turn Serbia into a "normal" European country. It would be foolhardy, at this stage...
...Delight." Acts such as Eric B. and Rakim took the art of rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating...
...decade and remains the only major opposition politician who never even met Milosevic personally, let alone cooperated with his regime. Even his opponents admit that he is stubbornly persistent in his views, a fact that has contributed to his reputation of incorruptibility and honesty. He is also a moderate nationalist and a relentless critic of the West, which makes him all the more appealing to potential Milosevic supporters. In addition, it is impossible for the regime to brand him as a NATO puppet, the favorite accusation in Serbia since the Kosovo conflict...
...simply that he's not Milosevic; unlike many opposition candidates he's never had anything to do with Milosevic. He's a moderate, center-right nationalist, but his appeal doesn't lie in his program. It lies in his integrity. He's untainted by any past relationship with the regime, but has also been fiercely critical of NATO's policy toward Serbia. And unlike many opposition and government politicians, he's never been linked with any Mafia activities. So he has an image of being incorruptible...