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Solano's articles have appeared in suchpublications Italica, Slavic Review, Speculum,French Review and Harvard Notes in Philology andLiterature...
Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) is a hotheaded baseball manager who loses his job with the Seattle Mariners and winds up coaching a squad of inept Russians. But THE COMRADES OF SUMMER is more than just a Slavic Bad News Bears. Shot in the former Soviet Union, the HBO film nicely mixes savvy baseball comedy with post-cold war satire: Sparky has to scrounge for equipment on the black market, holds practices in a cavernous warehouse and listens sadly to Voice of America broadcasts as his Mariners head for the World Series. (It's a fantasy.) Mantegna is delightfully dour...
Though the Serbs make up only a third of the population of Bosnia- Herzegovina , they are, says U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann, "trying to take over two-thirds of the country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said it was the largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second World...
...example, De Gennaro consolidated the library's three area studies departments--Judaica, Slavic and Middle Eastern--into a single department headed by Charles Berlin, formerly director of the Judaica section...
...Yugoslavia, whose name means Land of the South Slavs, the non-Slavic Albanians were at a special disadvantage. The Slovenes had Slovenia, the Croats Croatia, and the Macedonians Macedonia, but the Yugoslav Albanians never had a republic of their own. Instead, they were concentrated in the province of Kosovo in southern Serbia. Worse luck still, that piece of real estate included the site of the famous battlefield where Lazar lost to Murad...