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When the end came, in the cool dawn of a Serbian spring, it came quickly. Four, five shots in the gathering light. A convoy rushing past the gates of the white fortress where Slobodan Milosevic had retreated since his ouster from power last fall. And it was over. Milosevic, the man who had terrorized the turbulent Balkans for a decade, was wrapped in the arms of the law. It was a victory for so many things. A victory for the idea that it was possible to pressure nations into democracy. A win for those Serbs who had fought to make...
...Ivana Tasic-Nikolic is the Vice-President of the Harvard Serbian Society. She can be reached at itasic@fas.harvard.edu
...Harvard Serbian Society and the Serbian-American Alliance of New England (SANE), represented by Ana S. Trbovic ’01 and Marina Jovanovic ’01, produced the play Emigrants at Paine Hall two weeks ago. This educational and cultural experience brought together nearly 200 people, constituting about three fourths of Boston’s Serbian community, mostly graduate students and professionals...
...Polish émigré author, to the context of Yugoslavian integration today came from Jack Dimic, originally from Republika Srpska, now a student at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Theater and Film in New York. The project was realized with the assistance of Zarko Lausevic, a renowned Serbian stage and screen actor now in the United States. Emigrants themselves, Dimic and Lausevic partly depicted their own life stories—a political emigrant from Belgrade and an economic emigrant from Bosnia, an intellectual and a gastarbaiter—roommates in the poor suburbs of New York. The personal...
Emigrants inspired a lively discussion among the Serbian students, leading to many different and oftentimes conflicting interpretations of the piece and what it represents. Natalija Novta ’04, though she does not identify with the play’s characters, considers them realistic—recognizing other real-life emigrants in them. In contrast, Srdjan L. Tanjga ’01 describes the play as a “classic stereotype about Serbian emigration,” reproving a lack of originality and a non-convergence with the present moment. “A combination...