Word: yugoslavias
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...sits, 80 years old and perfectly arranged from tie to penny loafers, facing the charge of snobbery that’s shadowed his entire career. It’s a charge he seems to embrace.BEING JOHN SIMONIt’s hard work becoming a snob. Simon left his native Yugoslavia as a boy, exploring theater during grade school in England and the United States. He organized one play during a brief stint of “very undistinguished service” at an Air Force professional school, but lacked cooperative actors. “The ones around me wanted...
WHEN DESIGNER Ivana Omazic, 32, decided to leave home in the former Yugoslavia to study fashion in Milan, it was a very emotional decision. ?The war made it very difficult to leave my family,? she says. But she had known since age 5 that clothes would be her career, so she went to study at the European Institute of Design in Milan. In 1998, Omazic landed a job working for Miuccia Prada, which is when she learned to marry high-tech fabrics with feminine shapes. After seven years at Prada, Omazic was named creative director of Cline...
...Politics last night, United Nations (U.N.) prosecutor Carla Del Ponte addressed the problem of modern genocide with a single statement: “‘Never again’ did not work.” As Chief U.N. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Del Ponte shared her experiences prosecuting war criminals—including former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic—with a large gathering of undergraduate and graduate students in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In her first speech to an American university audience, just a month before the 60th anniversary...
Another focus of Tadic’s speech was the need for accountability and reconciliation after the bloody conflicts that marked the 1990s as the former Yugoslavia unravelled and was consumed by violence...
...turned out publication that features the usual inside-band stuff as well as some unexpected calls to political action. Fan publications usually urge readers to stay in touch with the musicians. Propaganda urges them to write letters on behalf of Amnesty International: "Please write to the federal authorities in Yugoslavia, asking for the immediate and release of Dr. Nikola Novakovic and all other Prisoners of Conscience. Write to: President of the Presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina . . . Begin your letter 'Your Excellency...