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...China until I was 18 years old and ended up in Iowa City, and I saw a poster saying critical language studies. Of course in those days, and this was the early 60s "critical languages" was a euphemism for "enemy language." They were advertising fellowships for Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. It was pretty apparent what they had in mind...
...philosophy. "You breathe/New life/Into my broken heart," she sings on Little Star, a swirling lullaby-like song about her daughter. On another track, the chanting Shanti/Ashtangi, Madonna sings in Sanskrit--something that, not too many years ago, would have been about as unthinkable as Hanson today singing in Serbo-Croatian. In translation, a line of Shanti/Ashtangi reads "I worship the gurus' lotus feet/ Awakening the happiness of the self revealed." Madonna in only six years has gone from sucking on feet to using them as catalysts for spiritual revelation...
...will take responsibility for the Pope's daily security, NATO-led peacekeeping forces have dispatched anti-sniper teams and explosive-sniffer dogs to the city and set up a joint emergency center with police. The ultimate test of these security precautions comes on Sunday when the Pope, speaking in Serbo-Croatian, will address as many as 60,000 Catholic pilgrims at a mass in Kosevo Stadium. Many of the pilgrims traveling to Sarajevo will first have to pass through territories held by non-Catholic ethnic groups, a fact the Vatican has emphasized in detailing the attrition undergone by the Catholic...
...left, nobody would take care of [the civilians]," he says. He has been stationed at the airport, but is happy that he will soon be assigned to a nearby suburb, where he will have more contact with the locals. Since his father is from Croatia, Itric knows some Serbo-Croatian and can communicate with them. "I saw this country three years ago, peaceful and united, and I wanted to come back and see what it is like now," Itric says. "If I could, I would stay with the U.N. here forever." The way things are going, he just...
...Tudjman was under the impression that he had a friend in the West, and that we would come in if things fell apart," says a State Department official. Holbrooke, the official says, "let him know that the West is not going to get involved if events lead to a Serbo-Croatian war. If it got really nasty, we would implement sanctions." But until a real settlement can be found, the abyss will always be there...