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Topic: Bosnia and Herzegovina

  

What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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Who's SuperFast!

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

Do-Gooders Need Not Apply

Bill Leeson, the outspoken cofounder of one of Great Britain's most high-profile charities, believes that you can do good works without being a do-gooder: "I am a deal maker. I make deals to get my story out."READ»

What to Watch on PointCast

Is there anything on PointCast worth watching?READ»

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Why Does the Mainstream Media Think We Can't Handle the Issues?

Anyoe else disgusted by the missed opportunity in the presidential debate? So much focus on trivia: the meaning of Wright's comments, or Barack's comment about bitterness. Hey, folks--we want to know your plans to end the war, ...READ»

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2008 Wasn't the Year of the Woman

Last week Amanda Fortini articulated what many women felt by the end of the election: "both Clinton and Palin came to represent—and, at times, reinforce—two of the most pernicious stereotypes that are applied to women: the bitch ...READ»

Are Scare Tactics Doing Social Responsibility a Service?

We have all heard the stats about the dire state of the climate, the depletion of natural resources, the increase in social problems… even my family which is located in a small farming village in Bosnia & Herzegovina were ...READ»

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" Nothing Is Easy in Iraq. But You Can't Not Do It."

A British brigadier on the rebuilding of Iraq's police force.READ»

Fast Talk: My Hardest Decision

Like a career, a company is the result of moves made and of opportunities lost. Five high-profile leaders reflect on their most difficult calls.READ»

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Soldiering On

With an honest answer to a simple question, General Eric Shinseki enraged his bosses -- and capped a brilliant military career.READ»

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Consider This: Art in Healthcare Makes Patients Feel Better

1.Art installed throughout healthcare facilities makes everyone feel better! Art in hospitals, clinics, examining rooms and offices is widely recognised as a valuable asset to healing and a testament to the quality of care being ...READ»

Technology: How Much? How Fast? How Revolutionary? How Expensive?

Not long ago, we believed in technology's outsized potential to move markets and to transform industries. Now the promise of technology seems unfulfilled. What's next? Will technology take a backseat? Or are we about to see a new role for technology -- one that is smarter, sharper, and more sustainable?READ»

'We Want to Link the Net to Real Places and Improve Communities'

Mary McCormick is finding ingenious ways to apply Internet connections to urban problems -- from combating domestic violence to filling potholes. But the most important job of a social entrepreneur, she believes, is connecting people.READ»

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Operation - Leadership

General Peter Schoomaker sees a new world of crisis and conflict that requires "creative solutions in ambiguous circumstances." His assignment: the recruitment and training of a new kind of problem-solving, combat-ready "warrior diplomat."READ»

Terrorism, Trauma, and the Search for Redemption

Silke Maier-Witt, a trauma psychologist in Kosovo, is seeking to heal the wounds that terrorism has inflicted on women from both sides. She's also seeking redemption for her father's dark past in Nazi Germany and her own as a revolutionary gang member.READ»