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What writer-director Danis Tanovic has created in his first fictional feature is a miniature version of the entire conflict in the former Yugoslavia--the implacable hatred of the combatants, the idealism of the peacekeepers warring with the dithering cynicism arising from the complexities of the problem they're trying to solve, the impotence of journalism to do much more than a sob-sister...
...want to rescue him. Their opponents do not want that to happen. This is not, perhaps, the most original premise in the history of popular fictions. But wait; it gets a lot better. The setting, posed in a fictitious time frame, is quite clearly the war in the former Yugoslavia; and the Serbians, among whom Burnett has fallen, don't want to take him prisoner. They want to execute him, because his F/A-18 plane, slightly off course, has taken pictures of a massacre--ethnic cleansing on a large scale--and its perpetrators don't want the world to know about...
...Argentina '78. And yet, more top teams have failed to make the grade this time than ever before. Five of the 20 best soccer nations, based on rankings issued last month by football's ruling body FIFA, won't be at Korea/Japan 2002: Colombia, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Romania...
...work of journalists in the war zones, however, has had concrete and positive effects in the past. Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, appears in the film to describe the impact her work has on people back home. Of Yugoslavia, she said she found a situation in which, “Fifty years after World War II, all our governments said ‘never again,’ but it was happening again.” When, as a result of persistent coverage of the wars atrocities, the West intervened, “it took two weeks...
...Harvard intellectual this idea is probably seems so unfathomable as not to be worthy of their “enlightened” discourse. To them, America’s failure to adequately defend Bosnia in the early 1990s demonstrates our religious bias against Muslims, while the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to protect the Kosovar Muslims is a display of U.S. attempts at hegemony. The U.S.-imposed sanctions on Iraq are responsible for 1.5 million children’s deaths, while Saddam Hussein is absolved of responsibility for delaying the implementation of the oil-for-food program for more than...