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...lucky: when the police arrived, they found a second grenade, unexploded, on the sidewalk nearby. I had been in danger many times before while covering the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia for TIME and for the local newsmagazine Vreme. But this was different: the wars ended years ago, Serbia's former President Slobodan Milosevic is dead and buried, and this was not a combat zone - it was my own apartment in my own hometown. And for the first time, my wife was also a target. Fortunately, our teenage daughter wasn't home at the time...
...years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased were from Srebrenica or were victims of the genocide...
Like many people in Serbia, I was troubled by this, and I said so on TV. I guess that provoked someone who refuses to believe the genocide in Srebrenica happened - or who thinks it was a good thing - to place those grenades on my windowsill. This didn't require a lot of expertise: grenades are user-friendly and easily available on the black market. So it could have been anyone. I now have police watching my home...
...Erbaorganics line, priced from $9.99 for baby shampoo to $19.99 for Milk and Oat Bath for Mom, is significantly less expensive than its higher-end counterpart. And the money donated to the WWO from Erbaorganics will be devoted to the psychological and medical needs of orphans in places like Serbia, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Ethiopia. "People approach us all the time trying to affiliate their product with our organization," says Aronson, who gave her personal stamp of approval to the brand. "Erbaviva was a great...
ZELJKO KOMSIC, Croat member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Hague did not find Serbia guilty of genocide in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, reflecting widespread shock among the victims...