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...NOVELIST GENERATING the most buzz at Belgrade's international book fair was notably absent during last week's page peddling. It turns out that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was indicted by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal for genocide in 1995, has used his many years on the run to focus on the gentler art of writing romance novels. The so-called Butcher of Bosnia penned a 416-page bodice ripper titled Miraculous Chronicles of the Night that quickly sold out all 1,200 copies...
...copies at the fair, we would have sold them all," gushed Miroslav Toholj, Karadzic's publisher and former Bosnian Serb information minister. Toholj explained that his publishing company printed only a small number of copies because critics panned Karadzic's previous books of poetry. "I'm surprised how good he is at writing fiction," says Serbian author Branislav Crncevic...
Ilija and Blaguna Trajkovic don't think much of democracy. Forced by an ethnic Albanian mob to leave their home in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, last March, and then obliged to stand by as the 19th century Serbian Orthodox church they had taken care of was torched, the Serb couple now live in a shipping container in the enclave of Gracanica, south of Pristina. In the past month, successive international delegations have urged the Trajkovics and 130,000 other members of the Serb minority living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional...
Miodrag Stojkovic's biggest fear is that "people think we're crazy scientists creating the latest Frankenstein." That's because the Serb, 40, a researcher with the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, could become the first person to use cells from a cloned human embryo to treat disease. Last week he got approval from the British government to conduct such an experiment...
...rare positive step toward reconciliation. "As with this bridge, so with Bosnia and Herzegovina," the United Nations' High Representative for the country, Paddy Ashdown, said at the opening ceremony, attended by delegations from 52 countries. With the return of refugees and the still-awaited arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader and accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the reconstruction is one of "three great acts of closure" for Bosnia, Ashdown told TIME. Locals have been celebrating, diving again from the high span into the Neretva river. But the communities that live on either side - Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat - still lead...