Word: vrionis
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...smiles with pride, half-embarassed, half-arrogant, and for a second I see the 19-year-old inside the fine, Italian-cut, grown-up clothes: "I had two secretaries working for me, actually... I even had a driver." I decide I like Holta Vrioni...
...Vrioni continues excitedly, student leaders "started to print lists, and I was one of them, running all over and collecting signatures." From the lists sprang a new political party. "We had a congress in December of 1992, after the democratic party won the elections. In that congress the chairman was selected, and right after the congress I was selected the secretary-general of the Youth Democratic Forum. The chairman was sort of symbolic, so I was the one who executed everything, so the decisions were absolutely mine...
Albania has had a tumultous adolescence. According to Vrioni, the communists still cling to power. "They still survive. They were 48 years in power which is a hell of a lot of period time." Vrioni says "hell" the way she says "absolutely"--with iron conviction. "We still have difficulties separating them and destroying them. They have spies everywhere. They know everything...
...totalitarianism in her country is dead; Vrioni seems absolutely certain of this. "They had a sunset... I don't know how you call it." She searches for words, then announces firmly, "But they won't have a sunrise...
...Vrioni wants a Harvard diploma the way she wants democracy; passionately, desperately, believing the enormous force of her personality will make it happen. She's still waiting to hear from the admissions committee. "I know myself--I can achieve anything in the world that has to do with intellectual stuff. I trust myself," she insists...