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...pair, senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov found themselves in a protracted back-and-forth series of deuces at 6-6 in the eight-game pro set.Kumar, returning serve from the deuce side, capitalized on a let off the racket of hard-serving Slavko Bijelica that bounced high into the air. He powered a backhand return winner, giving Harvard the break point, which Ermakov sealed with a powerful down-the-line backhand. Ermakov then held serve with two aces to give the pair an 8-6 win and earn Harvard the doubles point.The rest of the match seemed easy...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Starts Dual-Meet Season with Convincing Success | 2/4/2008 | See Source »

...firebrand bent on carving out an Islamic state in the heart of Europe. But the 70-year-old President most often seems to be a sincere, naive and at times haplessly besieged politician struggling to perform a delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSNIA'S HARDER FACE | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...Colonel Slavko Lisica heads the Doboj Corps. He claims to have 45,000 men -- a gross exaggeration according to intelligence estimates that put the total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Filter Lucre. In Kumanovo, Yugoslavia, Slavko Mitroviski found an imported Greek cigarette on the floor of a movie theater, used half a box of matches in an unsuccessful attempt to light it, unrolled the stubborn fag, found in it a tightly rolled U.S. $1,000 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Grabs and Runs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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