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...hero's welcome such as Serbia has rarely seen: more than 50,000 people gathered in a central Belgrade square on Sunday night to welcome home Marija Serifovic, the winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to her arrival from Helsinki, police cleared the 16-km road from the airport into the city in order to speed her passage, and a banner draped across the City Hall read Ave Marija...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, the ascending pop singer was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her gypsy ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring that she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or purported to expose her as a lesbian. In interviews, Serifovic has persistently declined to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...
...last two years, have their own policies that are not subject to Medical School control. “The hospitals, not HMS control access in the second two years,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Those policies are in flux and were prior to the AMSA survey.” Bhatt said he hoped the scorecard would prompt medical schools to implement more stringent policies. “Already this is creating quite a bit of noise in the medical community,” Bhatt said. “I think we?...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, she was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her Roma (Gypsy) ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or tried to expose her as a lesbian. In her interviews, Serifovic persistently declines to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...
...city's entire health care system, of course, was thrown into turmoil by Katrina. But psychiatric services have been perhaps the slowest to recover. Seven regional state-run outpatient clinics are operating, with limited services, but of the 200-plus psychiatric beds that existed in the city prior to Katrina, only 20 are in service at the moment. The number of psychiatrists and psychologists has dwindled and, despite a federally funded recruitment program, hospitals report difficulty finding doctors and nurses who specialize in mental health. All this at a time when, mental health experts say, the actual number of people...