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...Extreme SERBIA The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, led by former paramilitary and indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj, won 82 seats in parliamentary elections - more than any other political party. The vote - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's party was thrown out of power three years ago - also saw the ex-strongman's own Socialist Party of Serbia just meet the threshold to return to parliament. Seselj's party advocates returning Serbian troops to Kosovo, downgrading ties with the U.S. and Europe, and suing NATO for reparations for the U.S.-led bombing of Belgrade in 1999. The Radicals failed...
...wrestler in him," says a former Pentagon aide. "It's how he thinks. It's all about positioning and sizing you up. It's there every time you meet him. He's friendly; he's got that toothy grin going. But then it's like a light switch is thrown, and it's war. Even in a group of people, he'll go around the table and take each man on, one at a time. It's like he's testing himself...
...many parts of the world, being indicted for war crimes might be seen as a political liability. Not in Serbia. In parliamentary elections scheduled for later this month - the first since Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party was thrown out of power in 2000 - no fewer than three of the political parties are headed by men who have been charged with war crimes. Even stranger: one of them may be leading the pack. The Serbian Radical Party, led by ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj - who has been awaiting trial on charges of murder, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity in a Hague...
...know where Dartboard is going with this. Democrats such as Daschle the Demure and the folks at the uber-centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) have offered us years of uninspiring “opposition.” Which is why the party was so thrown into such a tizzy when Al Gore ’69—a leading light among centrist Democrats—descended from on high this week to anoint Howard Dean...
...trifle complicated: a pair of happy-go-lucky gondoliers, Marco (Phillipe Pierce) and Giuseppe (G. Cross Woodfield ’06), each marry a flower-toting Contadina—Gianetta (Caroline E. Jackson ’06) and Tessa (Maria Alu), respectively. The couples’ nuptial bliss is thrown into doubt when it is revealed that one of them—no one can say which for sure—may be the heir to the Kingdom of Barataria. The heir among them was transplanted to Venice at birth—but not before being engaged to the lovely...