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...standard, this is not a peace or even the cease-fire Serbs and Muslims agreed to in Sarajevo on Feb. 10. Nevertheless, the combatants may have taken the first serious steps in a Bosnian peace process last week. Diplomats began talking hopefully about finding an end to the 23-month war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The complementary pressures of Washington and Moscow appeared to be nudging their respective clients toward accommodation. A tide seemed to be turning as zeal for warfare ebbed and attention flowed toward crafting a negotiated settlement...
There are 23 minutes remaining before her Today show appearance, and Zlata Filipovic, the 13-year-old chronicler of war-torn Sarajevo, is snacking on cantaloupe, perusing a Harper's Bazaar and affecting an impressive calm. Impressive because she is surrounded by more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata...
From his perch overlooking Sarajevo's downtown, a Bosnian Serb sniper named Pipo watches people strolling the streets he thinks of as his. He likes to picture the streets the way they were before the cease-fire two weeks ago: fearful, deserted. "Everyone likes peace except me," he says. "I like...
Pipo asks a visitor if a note and some cigarettes could be taken to someone still in Sarajevo. He confides that his friend is a Muslim and a sniper on the other side. "Would you kill him if you got him in your sights?" he is asked. "Why not?" he replies...
Neolithic man, the Maya, life's origins -- at first glance, such subjects seem to have little in common with urgent reports datelined Hebron or Sarajevo. But make no mistake, the news value is profound. To cite this week's cover story, which Alexander edited: the conclusion of a recent scientific paper -- that Homo erectus wandered out of Africa nearly a million years earlier than was previously believed -- requires a change in our fundamental thinking about human evolution, and hence the way we understand ourselves. When the information is that important, Alexander muses, it doesn't matter "whether Homo erectus...