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...communists couldn't monopolize information. Later, with Russia adrift, he spent $100 million to help Soviet science, and scientists, survive the transition. In Yugoslavia he was outraged by what he perceived to be the pusillanimity of the West, so he doled out $50 million to try to save Sarajevo from Serb depredations. He has spent millions more funding Open Society foundations around the world, which finance education, freedom of speech and human-rights projects...
WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, who wrote this week's cover story, first encountered George Soros in Sarajevo four years ago, as the philanthropic billionaire was being shepherded out of the line of sniper fire. Soros was on a mission to give $50 million to rebuild war-torn Bosnia, and Shawcross was researching U.N. peacekeeping for an upcoming book. Shawcross was immediately intrigued by the international money manager. "A very cool character, but quite passionate about Sarajevo," he recalls. "He called it the world's largest concentration camp...
...easy," says a woman in Mozart. "It's sticking a piece of metal in a piece of flesh." Moviemaking, though, is hard. Here a crew is in Sarajevo to film an adaptation of Alfred de Musset. The Bosnian war, its carnage everywhere evident, is reflected in the rancor of the filmmakers. An actress must try, hundreds of times, to say the word oui correctly; the accountant refuses to sign any more checks. At the end of the war, and the end of the century, are we near the end of our rope? One man thinks so. "When I look...
...Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo precipitates World...
...SARAJEVO: On a trip meant to deliver spiritual renewal, Pope John Paul II's weekend mission to Sarajevo is operating under a cloud. Recent explosions have already damaged five Catholic churches and a Franciscan monastery, sending tremors throughout the city's Catholic community of 30,000. As death threats are issued against John Paul, workers have welded shut manholes in the city and residents are under orders not to open their windows during the Pope's 25-hour visit. The greatest tension centers around Snipers Alley, a long stretch of road known for its wartime shootouts that the Pope will...