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...actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on May 15, 1937 to Josef and Anna Korbel. As the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy very early on. She also got her first experience with tyranny when Adolf Hitler and the German army overran her country and her family fled to England...
Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy as "the little blond girl in the national costume," the daughter of a Czech diplomat who greeted dignitaries with flowers. She got her first lesson in tyranny when the Nazis overran her country in 1938 and her family fled to London. When the family returned, her father and role model, Josef Korbel, might have become Foreign Minister had the communists not taken over in 1948. Instead, Korbel and his family sought asylum in the U.S., where he taught international relations at the University of Denver...
...Also, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Srebenican women demonstrated again in Tuzla on Friday. "It was quite violent," says Stiglmayer. "They threw rocks and broke windows of a government building." Dozens of the women, who are the wives and daughters and mothers of men missing since the Serbs overran the Muslim enclave of Srebenica last fall, also traveled to Sarajevo to protest what they claim is the inaction of the government in getting an accounting. "These women claim that out of 8,000 missing men, 3,000 are still alive and being held in Serb prisons or labor camps...
...both work and publicity seemed limitless. At night, following 12-hour negotiating sessions, he could often be found roaming the corridors of his hotel in bare feet, hoping to buttonhole an aide into conversation or a reporter into doing yet another story on him. After Croatia's army overran the Serb-held region of Krajina in early August, he shuttled feverishly from one Balkan capital to another. He was pulled up short on Aug. 19 when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, but that tragedy...