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...visitor can attest that they feel like two different countries. Cross the border into the Serb Republic from the Muslim-Croat Federation and Latin script road signs give way to Cyrillic, mosques to Serbian Orthodox churches. Locals prefer Serbian beer and loza, a grape brandy, and the only flags visible, even on official government buildings, are Serbia's red, blue and white rather than Bosnia's official blue and yellow. "We've got everything here," said Predrag Andelic, 50, over a cigarette and a bottle of beer. He's a war veteran from near the city of Prijedor, site...
...most notorious massacre, at Haditha, where 24 Iraqis were killed by U.S. Marines--Marines led by Wuterich. During his first media interview, the former high school band member and honor student is exceedingly polite. Wearing jeans, black sneakers and a light blue polo shirt, he shows a visitor around his two-story semidetached house at Camp Pendleton in southern California, patiently answers questions and waits good-naturedly for a photographer to set up his equipment. There is no military paraphernalia cluttering his home, which is filled instead with family pictures, knickknacks, and souvenirs from his wife Marisol's sorority days...
...sword. While they keep some museums from updating, they may push others into going too far in catering to the customer, trying to boost attendance by dumbing down the history, ripping out intellectually challenging exhibits to make room for vapid video presentations. "While it's important to give the visitor what they want," says Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the planned National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, "we also have to give the visitor what they need...
Karzai says, "What the world should see is the desire of the Afghan people, not the problems we have along the way." A first-time visitor to Kabul is struck by the relative normality of the place, the absence of the barbed wire, blast walls and paranoia that have become familiar in Baghdad. The roads bustle with traffic--the number of cars in Kabul has tripled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Garish new building projects loom over some of Kabul's oldest, poorest slums, dramatizing the extent to which the country is beginning to emerge from decades...
...Crystals are my world," says the former agate miner, showing a visitor through the glittering galleries in the artificial cave-complete with polyurethane stalactites and stalagmites-he's made in the basement of the store...