www.bramsonort.org 

AlexanderVosk

Myname is Alexander Vosk, I am promoting educational opportunities to my fellowimmigrants.

Ifeel privileged to be able to present our Bramson Ort College to the CroatianCommunity.

Thefollowing pages contain a general description of why Bramson Ort College is thebest educational chance for the immigrant and ethnic communities of New York.For more information about the college please visit our website at www.bramsonort.org, or give me a call at 718-261-5800 ext.134.

Hereare a few important facts about Bramson Ort College:

ˇ       We accept students of alldifferent ages, nationalities, and religions.

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718-261-5800 ext.134

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Book Review: 

MacDonald, Balkan Holocausts? 

reviewed by Florian Bieber

Balkan Academic News Book Review 11/2003

David Bruce MacDonald, Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim
Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2003. 308 pp. 24.95 USD, ISBN 0-71906467-8 (softcover).

Reviewed by Florian Bieber (ECMI), Email: bieberf@gmx.net 
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This study is a comprehensive comparative analysis of nationalist myths in
Croatia and Serbia before and during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The
focus on myths of victimization follows the research (e.g. Vesna
Pesic or Ivan Colovic) conducted on nationalist mobilization in former
Yugoslavia, which has identified it as one of the most forceful mobilizers.
The comparative dimension allows David Bruce MacDonald to highlight the
similarities between the two cases.

In the first theoretical chapter, the author develops what he calls a
teleological model of nationalism, in which he identifies the functions of
different myths (myths of covenant, renewal, gold age and decline). While
largely following Anthony Smiths typology of myths, he concludes his book
with the correct observation that the myths of the golden age (which Smith
emphasizes) played a subordinate role in comparison to the myths of decline. The choice of
'victim-centered' propaganda and how it has drawn from different historical episodes, in particular
World War Two, is very useful, as this self-victimization facilitates both denying the
self-perception as a (possible) perpetrator and at the same time mobilizes fear, which has been
crucial in securing support for the nationalist projects of former Yugoslavia. Furthermore the myth
of the fall and decline allowed the new nationalist regimes to portray themselves as the beginning
of a new gold era and having a 'window of opportunity' to correct the past injustices (p. 259). At
the same time, the myth of an utopian future, as some authors have described in recent literature on

nationalist myths [1], did not figure prominently in the nationalist
discourses in Croatia and Serbia.

The reference to propaganda in the title is actually somewhat misleading,
as the politization of myths stands in the foreground of the book. Most sources
analyzed extend beyond government-disseminated distortions and include
writings of historians and other intellectuals. In fact, the emphasis of
propaganda prevents the author from exploring in greater detail the reasons
why these myths achieved such political salience in the past two decades.
It is the politization of the myths of decline and victimization, which is
remarkable in the case of former Yugoslavia, not necessarily the existence
of these myths as such.

One considerable draw-back of the book is its exclusively reliance on
sources in English. The author has nevertheless managed to drawn together a large number of
translated sources, which allowed him to conduct the study. It is, however, often at the expense of
materials which have not been translated . Furthermore, diacritic marks are somewhat randomly used
throughout the book. Related, but perhaps more seriously, some mistakes throughout the book do notalways demonstrate the author's close knowledge of the subject matter, thus Vasilije Krestic is
described as a politician rather than a 'historian' (p. 87) or Nikolaj Velimirovic is described as
having maintained anti-Semitic views until the 1990s (p. 146) despite his death in 1956. These
mistakes, of which there are a number throughout the book, are by themselves less disturbing than
the sense while reading the book that there is a certain lack of depth. When discussing historical
events, the author relies heavily on journalistic sources. For example, when highlighting the
conflictual number on the victims at the Jasenovac camp, he refers to Misha Glenny, Ed Vulliamy and
Brian Hall, rather than to numbers suggested in historical studies on the period (p. 161). Other
important writings on the subject of victimization or the approporation of the Holocaust are not
included, such as Marko Zivkovic's article of the appropriation of being a Jew in former Yugoslavia
[2] or reference to Vuk Draskovic's letter to Israel in 1985 where he underlines the similarities
between Serbs and Jews [3].

Altogether the book is balanced and insightful and covers ground not
discussed in this detail in the literature on the dissolution of
Yugoslavia. The focus on victimization in nationalist mythologies is indeed
important and can be found in nationalist mobilization across the world.
The quality of the analysis is somewhat reduced by the uneven usage of
sources. Nevertheless the book is useful reading for understanding
nationalist mobilization in former Yugoslavia.
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This an earlier book reviews are available at: www.seep.ceu.hu/balkans (as
the website is awaiting a major revamping, this and recent reviews have not
be included yet)
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Š 2003 Balkan Academic News. This review may be distributed and reproduced
electronically, if credit is given to Balkan Academic News and the author.
For permission for re-printing, contact Balkan Academic News.

Tomislav Z. Kuzmanovic
Hinshaw & Culbertson
100 E. Wisconsin Ave., Ste 2600
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Oxford Encyclopedia, follow-up 

Dear Ruth and Mike,

Many thanks for your prompt and courteous replies to my original email and rest assured, your labours are much appreciated from this side of the Atlantic. As far as the German dictionary is concerned, there is much symbolism involved in the ommision of the couplet "Croatia/Kroatien" and therefore my staunch involvement with this matter. It's just a very curious matter to see an entire country (including language and people) left out as dictionaryentries. This was further compounded by notice of an entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia, whereby the adjective "Serbian" as in "Serbo-Croatian culture" was attached to an entry providing historical data about the city of Dubrovnik. Of course I don't think there was any overt reasoning behind these two issues, one a problem ofomission, the other of commission. You must admit though, an outsider could easily infer that Croatia is being unfairly slighted twice, and that is what brought me to call this matter to your attention. 

I must thank Jane Gardner as well for assisting in this matter. May I ask to receive a notice when the updates are put into effect? I would certainly be most appreciative if a follow-up notice were emailed to my attention. At that juncture you could certainly continue to call me a loyal customer as well as a loyal consumer. Thanks again.

Sincerely yours,

Michael Spudic
Forest Hills, New York USA

Mjspudic1@aol.com 


Dear Mr Spudic

Many thanks for your email of the 10th May concerning the entry on Dubrovnik
in the on-line World Encyclopaedia. 

We are aware that this text is now out of date and in places erroneous, and
have therefore ceased publishing the print version and cancelled any future
production of the online version. However, it seems that some old copies of
the online version surface on the market occasionally, despite our best
efforts.

We are currently in the process of producing a new edition of the
encyclopaedia and I will ensure that such entries are considered more
carefully in this revised work. Please accept my sincere apologies for any
offence that this entry has caused and rest assured that we are doing
everything in our power to put it right.

Yours sincerely


Ruth Langley

Commissioning Editor
Trade and Reference Department
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon St
Oxford
OX2 6DP
Telephone: 01865 354210
Fax: 01865 353658


Dear Mr Spudic

Many thanks for you email of 10 May concerning the lack of an entry for
Croatia or Kroatien in the IFinger version of the Concise Oxford-Duden
German Dictionary. 

Their absence is indeed an unfortunate oversight for which I must apologize.
Kroatien is in fact also missing from the print version of the dictionary,
but Croatia is certainly in the printed book and we are therefore puzzled as
to why there is no entry for it in the IFinger version and are investigating
urgently. I can assure you that there are entries for both Croatia and
Kroatien in all the other dictionaries in our Oxford-Duden German range,
including the smaller Pocket Oxford-Duden German Dictionary. We will of
course take the first opportunity to correct their omission from the IFinger
Concise. 

Please accept my sincere apologies for any offence that the absence of these
entries has caused and rest assured that we will be doing everything in our
power to put it right.

Yours sincerely

Mike Clark

Michael Clark
Projects Manager
Bilingual Dictionaries
Oxford University Press
Gt. Clarendon St.
OXFORD OX2 6DP

tel. +44 1865 556767 ext. 4496
fax +44 1865 267811 

Please note new email address:
 mike.clark@oup.com  

Responses from Oxford University Press 


Dear Mr. Bach:

For your files, copies of correspondence from Ruth Langley and Mike Clark of the Oxford University Press, in response to my letters of complaint re: lack of entry for "Croatia-Kroatien" in their English-German dictionary, and their entry of "Serbo-Croatian culture" under Dubrovnik in theirencyclopedia. 

Kind regards,
Allen Milcic
Mississauga, Canada
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Dear Mr Milcic

Many thanks for your email of the 8th May concerning the entry on Dubrovnik
in the on-line World Encyclopedia. 

We are aware that this text is now out of date ( It wasnever correct, regardless of a date - Nenad Bach Op-ed) and in places erroneous, andhave therefore ceased publishing the print version and cancelled any future production of the online version. However, it seems that some old copies of
the online version surface on the market occasionally, despite our best
efforts.

We are currently in the process of producing a new edition of the
encyclopaedia and I will ensure that such entries are considered more
carefully in this revised work. Please accept my sincere apologies for any
offence that this entry has caused and rest assured that we are doing
everything in our power to put it right.

Yours sincerely

Ruth Langley

Commissioning Editor
Trade and Reference Department
Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon St
Oxford
OX2 6DP
Telephone: 01865 354210
Fax: 01865 353658
---------------------------------------------------
Dear Mr Milcic

Many thanks for your email of 10 May concerning the lack of an entry for
Croatia or Kroatien in the IFinger version of the Concise Oxford-Duden
German Dictionary. 

Their absence is indeed an unfortunate oversight for which I must apologize.
Kroatien is in fact also missing from the print version of the dictionary,
but Croatia is certainly in the printed book and we are therefore puzzled as
to why there is no entry for it in the IFinger version and are investigating
urgently. I can assure you that there are entries for both Croatia and
Kroatien in all the other dictionaries in our Oxford-Duden German range,
including the smaller Pocket Oxford-Duden German Dictionary. We will of
course take the first opportunity to correct their omission from the IFinger
Concise. 

Please accept my sincere apologies for any offence that the absence of these
entries has caused and rest assured that we will be doing everything in our
power to put it right.

Yours sincerely

Mike Clark


Michael Clark
Projects Manager
Bilingual Dictionaries
Oxford University Press
Gt. Clarendon St.
OXFORD OX2 6DP

tel. +44 1865 556767 ext. 4496
fax +44 1865 267811 

Please note new email address:
mike.clark@oup.com  

K9 & NOMADS + RESIDENTS

Dear friends,
finally i'll show my new peace K9 at 21.05.at 5.30 pm in Kitchen.

Address is The Kitchen 512 W.19th Street NY 10011
212.255.5793 

please be there on time. 
best,
zlatko

zlatko.kopljar@zg.hinet.hr 


1. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Fund for Performance Artist, at The Kitchen,
May 21, 5:50 to 5:55 PM sharp!

Franklin Furnace-supported artist Zlatko Kopljar's K9 is a video
record
of performances made at various places around New York City, with
narration taken from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia. The software that
enhances the video moves the pixels of each frame to new locations
within the same frame. Using the artist's genetic data and digital
media as artistic tools, K9 exemplifies the link that digital art
creates between technology and life.

Contact: Franklin Furnace or
Michael Chagnon
The Kitchenp: 212.255.5793 x25
f: 212.645.4258
e: michael@thekitchen.org

2. A forum for visitors in the arts: making connections, supporting networks, 
setting up meetings

Nomads & Residents invites you to an evening of presentations by, Nina 
Katchadourian, Zlatko Kopljar, Nebojsa Seric - Shoba and Heidie Giannotti.

Friday, May 23rd, 7 PM

THE WHITEBOX

525 West 26th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York 10001 
tel 212-714-2347 / fax 212-714.2354
info@whiteboxny.org 

"'Inappropriate' Adjustments"

This session will bring together four artists from two highly different 
settings, the US and the Balkans, who are separately working with their exis
ting social, ethical and natural limits of the world they take as their own. 
No matter whether their practice is triggered by the extremes and by the 
absurdities of this world, of war, of hermetic institutionalism, of urban 
ecology, or of nature and constructed nature, their work may tell of a 
certain inappropriate act of adjusting both the reality and to reality. Thus 
by uncovering paradoxes of what is often expected from everyday life, these 
artists raise questions about the status of the appropriate act and its 
weakness in new and extreme realities. With this session we hope to further 
raise issues of the expected and the unexpected role of a work of art, its 
relation to the realities that are beyond the ordinary or average, and the 
permanence of errors that by their repetition with duration become 
experienced as a standard of life.

Zlatko Kopljar from Zagreb(Croatia), currently in-residence at Franklin 
Furnace and performing at the Kitchen on May 21, and Nebojsa Seric - Shoba 
from Sarajevo (Bosnia) who will be representing Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 
coming Biennial in Venice both experience absurd moments in reality as 
something that comes to be seen as normal. Both of them deal with something 
that can best be described as radical 'biting' be it in a gallery or in an 
urban space. War and uncertainty may be the context for their work, however, 
not necessarily the sole character of their concepts. They are rather 
questioning the appropriateness of working as an artist in an expected way 
within the situation that is extreme. Different in response, their work is 
often triggered by the unexpected twists of the meanings of personal acts in 
such realities, and proposes sets of inversions, adjustments of how this 
reality can be understood. 

Kopljar's installations propose heavy fundamental questioning and 
physically destructive work. His recent work K4 was made as an attack aimed 
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, a protest against the general 
situation of institutions in Croatia. The work consisted of a heavy and huge 
concrete block cast according to the dimensions of the museum's entry. This 
block was placed in front of the museum blocking the entrance for the period 
of one week. In spite of its radicality in changing the use of the museum and 
the roughness and brutality of its appearance, this work is not aimed at 
individual museum visitors but at the institutional structure. The goal of 
this piece was to work towards opening discussion about the current state of 
open processes and open societies. 

For the last six years much of New York artist Nina Katchadourian's work 
has oriented itself around "nature," as concept, construct, and site, as a 
way of looking at our assumptions, needs, cravings, dependency and resistance 
associated with this term. In summer/fall of 2002 she exhibited Natural Car 
Alarms, a traveling sound sculpture that consists of three cars rigged with 
modified car alarms whose typical six-tone siren had been replaced with a 
similar one made only of bird calls. The idea for the project was in fact the 
result of a misunderstanding - she heard a bird in the jungles of Trinidad 
that she mistook for a car alarm - and the project took up the severely urban 
car alarm as an element that was in fact completely natural to the Long 
Island City landscape where the piece was exhibited several times in summer 
and fall of 2002. Her most recent body of work, exhibited at Debs & Co. 
gallery in 2003, continues asking questions about where we place the border 
between the natural and the unnatural. Crossdressing becomes a vehicle by 
which to explore both gender and our desire for things to stay within their 
prescribed categories. In Animal Crossdressing she constructed costumes to 
turn a rat into a snake and a snake into a rat where predator and prey are 
transformed into their opposites. In Katchadourian's video Endurance a 
10-minute film of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to the South Pole on 
the ship Endurance is projected minutely onto her front tooth as she tries to 
smile for as long as possible without losing composure. This work is a 
response to both the fascination with adventure/survival stories and to the 
more masochistic strains of the performance art tradition.

On the other hand Shoba's work is a lighthearted but existential 
questioning of the icons of the communist era and recent history. His Remote 
Control, for example, reduces a complex schema in reality such as war, 
religion and happiness to commands on a remote control. Creative Time of New 
York selected his work in the form of poster design among the applicants from 
the visual, literary, architectural, and graphic arts for their project 
entitled: Time to Consider: The Arts Response to 9.11. This and other 
projects are taking to task the manipulation of our collective experience by 
the media, and to our [lack] of resistance in adjusting to it.

Heidie Giannotti is an artist living in New York City. Instead of the 
narrative description for this Nomads + Residents event on inappropriate 
adjustments of reality, she offers the following: "Appropriate appropriation, 
prop, assembler, chance, ready-made instructions, dislocated temporal events 
& fugitive elements, thought is sought. PLUS: you know my style - I'd say 
anything to make you smile."

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About Nomads + Residents:

Big cities are in a continuous flux, with a coming and going of people who 
settle in, stay temporarily or move through. Newcomers enter this flux, 
become part of the life of the city, and make connections with others. The 
city, as a space, contains possibilities through the dynamic Relationships 
between people, which may provoke an active engagement. Strangers become 
friends, ideas become practice, and models are being transformed into action.

The curatorial and organizing group of NOMADS & RESIDENTS consists of New 
York based and temporary residents. They actively seek out information about 
who is visiting New York and when, they invite guests to present his/her 
ideas and solicit the involvement of spaces where these presentations can 
take place. They welcome advice, ideas and the enthusiastic support of 
others. The events will be partly informal and casual, and will focus on 
exchanging ideas, initiating new projects and networks. They will also 
include short presentations, lectures, talks, sideshows, small exhibitions, 
performances, discussions. Priority will be given to proposals that could 
become projects that will be shared among the participants, to a practice can 
make resources and ideas available for common use.

NOMADS & RESIDENTS originated in New York, yet also bases its activities on 
the coming and going of people who settle in, stay temporarily or move 
through cities such as Los Angeles, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.

To read more about n+r and browse through our archive of events please 
visit our web site at http://www.nomadsresidents.org.
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For program suggestions, contact us via email at: 

New York: info@nomadsresidents.org
Los Angeles: nr_la@hotmail.com
Rotterdam/Amsterdam: nomadsresidents@earthlink.net

Looking for city maps of Osijek, Djakovo, andVukovar.

Hi Nenad--

Thanks for your continued hard work in keeping the CROWN home-page one of the 
most interesting and eclectic on the Web. I so enjoy reading it! 

Thanks for the recommendation of Tony Fabijancic's travel book about Croatia. 
I have already ordered one from amazon.com. There are so few good books of 
that sort about Croatia and neighboring countries. I am jumping at the 
chance to read a new one. Have you heard of "Eyewitness Travel Guides: 
Croatia,"? It's a beautiful travel guide with full-color photos, 
introduction to the history and culture of Croatia, touring information about 
Croatia by area, traveler's needs when traveling there, and "survival 
guide." It was published just this year by Dorling Kindersley, Ltd., (DK 
Publishing) in England. I picked one up at my local Barnes & Noble 
bookseller. I love it! It brings out all the beauty of Croatia in an 
easy-to-use book for first time or repeat travelers. It has wonderful tips 
on what to see in many cities, shopping, eating, culture, etc. Your readers 
would enjoy it.

May I ask you a small favor? Do you have any suggestions where I might get 
some maps of cities in Croatia besides the usual tourist ones (Zagreb, Split, 
Dubrovnik)? I am looking for city maps of Osijek, Djakovo, andVukovar, if 
you know of any website or store that might sell them. I have country maps 
of Croatia in English and German, but they focus on the highways that connect 
the cities and not the cities themselves. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks again for your hard work on the CROWN web-site.

Svako dobro,

Diane Mahoney
 Dianemmahoney@aol.com  

Op-ed

Please contact Diane, if you have an access tot he maps or ifyou know the Internet address for the same.

NB


Nenad--

Thanks so much for your help. The towns I want are relatively "obscure" in the grand scheme of touring and tourism, I guess! But there has to be a place, in English or Hrvatski, where I could find something. Isn't that the beauty of the "world wide web"? I don't care if the website is in Hrvatski; it would be good practice for me in my fledgling study of the language to find something there! And street names are the same or close whatever the language.

I am writing this at work and don't have access to the book I told you about. I know there isn't one author--it's put together by what looks to me like a group of Italians who produced it and took the photos. But it's obviously aimed at a British audience since it's written entirely in English. One thing I like best about it is how current it is. It refers to war damage and problems in some regions of Croatia, of course, but really highlights the positive aspects of Croatian culture and the places for tourists to visit everywhere, even Eastern Slavonija and Vukovar (the city museum apparently is re-opened now).

My other tour books were written two or three years ago and are outdated for some parts of Croatia now. They tend to say, "stay away from this or that region--war damage and land mines!" That is NOT the impression Croatia needs to present to the world, especially the tourism sector. It's not true, anyway--I was in Vukovar two years ago and yes, there is war damage and there are land mines if you aren't careful, but there is also much rebuilding, and some beautiful sights to see (Bishop Strossmeyer's cathedral in Djakovo immediately comes to mind) in the nearby vicinity. This new book I found emphasizes the latter, to very positive effect.

I have to stop and get back to work. Thanks for your prompt response. I do appreciate it.

Diane Mahoney

Democratic candidate Kucinich discloses finances 

Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich discloses personal finance, numerous trips By MALIA RULON
Associated Press Writer 


WASHINGTON (AP)--Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich didn't earn much more than his congressional salary, but he did receive some speaking fees for talking about world peace. 

According to his financial disclosure forms, the Ohio lawmaker received $3,000 from two speeches made last year--money he donated to the Nizhoni School for Global Consciousness in Galisteo, N.M. 

Kucinich, a strong opponent of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, took 14 trips last year. He spoke to the NJ Peace Action's annual dinner and the Eugene Peace Academy, which is an Oregon charter school set to open this fall. At the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, he spoke about the cosmic interplay between stardust, matter and one's spirit while also condemning the impending war in Iraq. 

While some lawmakers file pages of stock earnings, money earned from book deals or house mortgages, Kucinich listed just four accounts and one share he owns in the American CroatianLodge. Combined, his assets total less than $32,000. 

``Like many politicians, the congressman did not get into the service of government to make money,'' said Kucinich spokesman Doug Gordon. 

Members of Congress receive a $154,700 annual salary. 

His only debt is a loan of between $15,001 and $50,000 from actress Shirley MacLaine, a close friend who is listed as Shirley Parker, her legal name. He has not been charged interest for the loan, which was made in 1981. 


AP-NY-05-16-03 1936EDT

Copyright 2003, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

Zoran Basich, a first class, San FranciscoExaminer, editor

Publication date: 05/16/2003

Under the bridge
BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM
Of The Examiner Staff

FRIDAY, May 16 -- One of the best-kept secrets in town is the Educated Palate restaurant at 4th and Mission. It's run by the culinary students at City College. It offers top-notch food at more than reasonable prices. ... Changes are underway at the Downtown Campus of CCSF. The restaurant will move up to the lobby level next month, along with the bookstore, and will expand to 80 seats. "It's a great deal and it's a great cause," says John Konstin, owner of John's Grill -- the restaurant that serves as a shrine for Dashiell Hammett. "Dash would like the cause but the cause would have more meaning if they had a bar." ... John's on the City College Culinary Arts advisory board. ... Steve Glick is the dean. ... Edward Hamilton is the chair. The chair is happy about the new dining room set. ... 

Just another day in S.F. That's what a group of Richmond elementary school kids thought when they were taking a tour with their teachers at City Hall yesterday. As the gaggle of ogling children were marched to their school bus, a Hummer limo pulled to the curb. Emerging from the long black vehicle and stepping onto the red carpet on the City Hall steps, was the striking Yurie Pascarella, elegantly decked out in a Thierry Mugler white-on-white suit and a black, wide-brimmed hat from Neiman Marcus. She was accompanied by two pages in powdered wigs. Yurie is the chairman of this year's Black & White Ball, set for May 31. While horn players Jonah Levy, a senior at S.F.'s School of the Arts and David Matchim, from Rocklin High School, trumpeted a fanfare, Yurie presented Mayor Willie Brown his invitation to the ball. The great band leader Dick Bright tore off "San Francisco" on his white violin. Chef Melissa Perello, from Charles Nob Hill, and Ron Siegel, the chef at Masa's, distributed confections to the cognoscenti. All in attendance were attired in variations of black and white -- including Jester and Abigail, two Harlequin-bred Great Danes from Kathleen Davis' Davishire Danes in Mill Valley. ..."I am really touched by this," said Da Mayor who is not easily impressed. ... "Is this President's Day?" a wide-eyed, 10 year old Shanice Robinson asked Marites Saquing, principal of Family Christian Academy in Richmond. Every day is President's Day at San Francisco City Hall. It was just another day. ... 

Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld aka Dr. Hip held a 92nd birthday party last weekend for his dad, Ben Schoenfeld, aboard Dr. Hip's 63-foot long yacht, the Higher Hopes. Gene had 45 friends aboard to watch the KFOG Kaboom fireworks. Included were KQED-FM's Michael Krasny and Leslie Krasny ... Paul "The Lobster" Wells ... KGO's Greg Edmonds ... Creon Levit ... Faustin Bray ... attorney Laurence Lichter, who is married to Nedra Ruiz, dog maul defender. ... Gene says, "We were a raucous crew. It was prudent I brought along four psychiatrists on the trip." ... They were Drs. Frank Schoenfeld ... Barbara Schoenfeld ... Alison Kershin and Nathan Cohen. ... All aboard were amazed by the 92 year old birthday boy effortlessly climbing up and down the steep, treacherous ladder to the flybridge. ... 

Wilkes Bashford celebrates his 70th birthday at the Fairmont tonight with a dinner that benefits PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support). Patty Austin will perform Broadway and cabaret tunes. ... Oprah Winfrey is in town this weekend ... More Norwegian gaieties: a Sat. night bash at the Norwegian Seaman's Church for Norwegian Constitution Day ... then a party Sunday afternoon at Ft. Mason where the traditional blŻtkake or cream cake, will be served. Norway's Consul General Janne Julsrud will be there. ... Bodil Niska, the vivacious Norse tenor saxophonist, plays Moose's on Sunday, p.m. to 5 p.m. I hear Bodil's tone is clearer than a fjord, smoother than aquavit. "Aquavit is Swedish," Barbara Carberry snapped at me. Oh, well. It's all aquavit under the bridge. ... Elizabeth Laurence, "The It Girl," back from L.A., celebrated Mother's Day in style -- at the Bel Air Hotel where she and her daughter brunched with Hugh Jackman at the next table. "In casual clothes, white sweat top, black pants -- he looked very buff," reports Elizabeth. ... 

Speaking of buff, let's not forget the Bay to Breakers, which transforms voyeurism into a legitimate outdoor sport -- and gets this unwieldy town on its feet early Sunday morning. ... Bonnie Raitt headlines Footstock in GG Park. ... I'll be signing copies of "Bellingham by the Bay" at the nearby Examiner booth, Sunday at 9 am. ... Novelist Dale Brown has a novel way of getting to his book signings. He flies there in his 8-seater, Cessna 421. He wings in today for an appearance at the M Is For Mystery Book Store in San Mateo to promote his book, "Air Battle Force." ... A new author is Zoran Basich, who is stepping down as executive editor of The Examiner to repair to Croatia with his family and finally write that book. He is unanimously adored and respected by his staff. All of us wish him well. A first class editor, a first class fellow: I'll miss you, Zoran. Thank you, boss. ... 

http://examiner.com/bruce_bellingham/default.jsp?story=n.bellingham.0516w 

“Vukovar Cellars,” working title of novel in progress 

“I hope by writing a novel and going there, my enthusiasm and interest will spill over and people will see Croatia as an important country.” 

May 16, 2003 

Students earn honors 

By Emily Garland 

Three Linfield seniors and one recent graduate will spend next year researching or teaching in foreign countries with grants from the Fulbright Program and the French government. 

These students competed against almost 5,300 students for 1,134 grants this year. Eleven out of the 13 Linfield students who have applied over the past five years have been awarded Fulbright grants or French Government Teaching Assistantships. Debbie Olsen, instructor of history and director of academic advising, said the number of Linfield students who applied for and received grants this year is the highest in her eight years as Linfield’s Fulbright adviser. 

Created by the United States Congress in 1946, the Fulbright Program awards grants to students to study, research and teach abroad. Its purpose is to improve the understanding of other cultures and nations. 

Paul Beck, an international business major and German minor, will travel to Saarbrucken, Germany in September with the money from his Fulbright award. He will research the impact of the Euro on the German economy, specifically on small and middle-sized businesses. He will spend his first few months studying the history of Europe’s introduction of the single currency system at the University of Saarland in Saarbrucken. For the remainder of the year, he will interview small companies and produce case studies documenting the Euro’s impact on the companies’ export sales throughout Europe. 

Beck said although he doesn’t think he will see a significant change, he expects he will find evidence that the introduction of the Euro has been advantageous to smaller companies. 

“The main theory is that the Euro will provide an advantage to small companies who export their products through Europe. Before they were at a disadvantage,” Beck said. “Were they able to increase their export sales in Europe since they’ve had the system two years? Or did things pretty much stay the same?” 

Jennifer Cregg graduated from Linfield in December 2002 with a German major and political science and European studies minors. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany. 

Cregg received a Padagogischer Austauschdienst teaching assistantship. She does not yet know where she will be teaching within Germany. After her assistantship, Cregg hopes to continue graduate school and become an English teacher in Germany. 

Sarah Monfort will travel to Croatia next year where she will write a historical novel on the 85-day Siege of Vukovar of 1991. 

Monfort will graduate this June with a creative writing major and history and Spanish minors. 

“[A] Fulbright is a wonderful way to research this project,” Monfort said. “[It will give me the] opportunity to actually go to the site and interview the people who lived through the event, who are still in the process of rebuilding the town and their lives.” 

Monfort has been studying the Croatian language over the past two semesters with a tutor she hired from the University of Portland and a Linfield student from Serbia. She plans to arrive in Croatia in July, when she will enroll in an intensive language program in Dubrovnik before her Fulbright fellowship begins in October. 

Monfort will spend a semester at Zagreb University in the capital city of Zagreb, where she will gather information for “Vukovar Cellars,” which is the working title of her novel. She will travel to Vukovar for the remainder of her fellowship, where she will observe and talk to the residents and concentrate on writing her novel. 

Monfort turned in the 40 pages of her novel she has already written as part of her Fulbright proposal. 

Her main purpose in writing the novel, Monfort said, is to spur interest in Croatia and to convince people of its importance. 

“Croatia is such a beautiful country with wonderful people, [but] it can be virtually overlooked by a lot of the world,” Monfort said. “I hope by writing a novel and going there, my enthusiasm and interest will spill over and people will see Croatia as an important country.” 

Joelle Tybon, a history and English major and French minor, was awarded an affiliated French Government Teaching Assistantship. Students apply for this grant through the Fulbright Program. Tybon will teach English conversation classes to high school students for 12 hours a week. She does not yet know in what region she will be teaching. 

Tybon has played soccer every fall for the past 15 years and said she hopes to play or coach the sport during her stay in France. 

Tybon spent a semester in southern France and is eager to return. 

"I really want to improve my language skills,” Tybon said. “I also want to share America with high schoolers who might not have any other experience with it.” 

http://webserver-nt.linfield.edu/review/full_text.cfm?article_id=1780 

Néstor Kirchner

The following article in today's NY Times discusses the next likely
president of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, whose mother was a Croatian
born in Chile.

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May 16, 2003
Argentina's Backwoods Leader-to-Be
By LARRY ROHTER


UENOS AIRES, May 15 - Néstor Kirchner's friends admit that when he
announced late last year that he would seek to become president of
Argentina, he had no expectation of winning. As the governor of a remote
and sparsely populated province in Patagonia - "the man nobody knows,"
in the words of one newsmagazine here - he aimed merely to make himself
known to the rest of the country and then try again in four years.

Instead, Mr. Kirchner, 53, is poised to become Argentina's 49th
president. A solid performance as one of three Peronist candidates in
the first round of the election last month, followed on Wednesday by the
startling withdrawal of his opponent, former president Carlos Menem,
means that there will be no runoff vote on Sunday and that Mr. Kirchner
will take office on May 25.

Once in power, though, his smooth ride is certain to end. He will be the
sixth president in less than 18 months, taking office without the
benefit of the landslide victory at the polls he had counted on to give
a fast start to his mandate. He will also inherit an economy that, as he
put it on Wednesday, has been "devastated, pressured and extorted" by a
debt default, four years of recession and the collapse of the banking
system and the peso.

But Mr. Kirchner clearly relishes his sudden leap onto the national
stage, even though his administrative experience has been limited to
governing fewer than 200,000 people with all the advantages that an
oil-based economy can bring. In his first remarks as president-designate
he was brimming with both confidence and toughness.

"I haven't come this far to make deals with the past," he vowed in a
Wednesday speech that coincided with Mr. Menem's withdrawal and
contained several traditional populist Peronist flourishes. Argentines
can be certain, he promised, that he has "decided to turn the page of
history" and "start to build a new country with you."

Néstor Carlos Kirchner was born in Río Gallegos, the capital of Santa
Cruz, the southernmost of Argentina's mainland provinces, on Feb. 25,
1950. His father was a post office bookkeeper and his mother a
housewife; the couple had three children, of whom Mr. Kirchner is the
only son.

The first Argentine president to be born in Patagonia, Mr. Kirchner is
descended from the Central European immigrants who flocked to that
remote and wind-swept region as pioneers a century ago. "My grandmother
was Swiss and my grandfather German," he said at a recent news
conference with foreign correspondents here. "My mother is Croatian,
born in Chile."

People who knew Mr. Kirchner as a child described him as an inquisitive
student from a tightknit family that read widely and supported Gen. Juan
Domingo Perón. As a tall and somewhat gawky adolescent, with a
pronounced lisp that he retains today, he distinguished himself less in
the classroom than by joining the basketball team to play forward, his
coach, Emilio García Pacheco, recalled in Río Gallegos this week.

"Kirchner was a mediocre player, but he had a lot of dedication, drive
and persistence," Mr. García Pacheco said. "He has calmed down with age
and responsibility, but back then he was hotblooded, prone to get angry
easily and to fight a lot with the referees."

As is traditional among Peronist party leaders, Mr. Kirchner has a wife,
Cristina Fernández, who is a formidable political figure in her own
right. She is an influential senator from Santa Cruz Province and for
many years before that was Mr. Kirchner's law partner.

The couple, who have a son, 26, and a daughter, 13, met during their
college years in La Plata in the mid-1970's. When a military coup
overthrew María Estela Perón in March 1976, they took refuge in Mr.
Kirchner's hometown, anticipating but hoping to evade the roundup of
students, Peronists and other perceived "subversives" that would
eventually result in the disappearance of as many as 30,000 people.

Nevertheless, Mr. Kirchner was taken into custody twice in the early
days of the dictatorship, "once for more or less a month and then for
just a few days," his sister, Alicia Margarita Kirchner, recalled in an
interview in his hometown last week.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Menem repeatedly accused Mr.
Kirchner of belonging to the Montonero left-wing guerrillas, the main
adversary of the military during the country's "dirty war." Mr. Kirchner
has denied that affiliation, but the Peronist youth group to which he
belonged was known to have clandestine ties to the guerrillas, and a
friend said recently that "he of course sympathized with their aims, as
did all of us in those days."

In what amounted to an inaugural address on Wednesday, Mr. Kirchner
said: "I belong to a generation that did not buckle under persecution or
in the face of the disappearance of friends as part of the greatest
system of repression ever created in our country. We have the strength
of those who got into politics because we thought this country could
change."

During the remainder of the dictatorship, the Kirchners focused on their
law practice and became wealthy.

In 1987, four years after the return of democracy to Argentina, Mr.
Kirchner was elected mayor of Río Gallegos. Four years later, he ran for
governor, winning a narrow victory, and then, after changing the
Constitution so he could run again, winning re-election by broader
margins in 1995 and 1999 despite an opposition that criticizes his
conduct as imperious and inflexible.

Here in the capital there have been suggestions that Mr. Kirchner is
both colorless and something of a country bumpkin who will be easily
outwitted by the Peronist party establishment. But his sister Alicia,
who is minister of social affairs in his provincial government, warns
not to judge him by appearances or to underestimate him.

"Some worry whether Néstor is charismatic or not, but those who know him
know that he is someone who is single-minded, who gets an idea in his
head and goes with it," she said. "That has made him both friends and
enemies." 


Néstor kirchner
"EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ARGENTINOS". 

No es el hombre carismático, que los argentinos siempre estuvieron acostumbrados a votar, pero es quien supo ganar una posición respetable en el electorado, con una selectiva interpretación del estado de animo que la ciudadanía sufre desde hace varios ańos sin saber que rumbo tomar, y estos entre elegir a Menem optaron por volcar el voto en un hombre que aparentemente, no sufre del mal que lo aqueja al riojano, de haber tenido una gestión corrupta, y descargar sobre sus espaldas hecho lamentables que fueron sucediendo a lo largo de los díez ańos del gobierno de Carlos Menem. "Arto de soportar las locuras del menemismo, el electorado no le permite volver a Menem y su clan". Dejándolo en una posición embarazosa, porque después de la derrota, le será difícil reponerse.

żPORQUÉ PERDIÓ MENEM EN CHACABUCO? 

En esta ciudad, primó la mezquindad personal de algunos referentes por encima de la candidatura del ex presidente, como así también se fueron dando una serie de factores como, "Algunas caras que producen repulsión a la hora de emitir el voto", la individualidad de los referentes de la lista 133, hizo que creciera y sacara buen caudal de votos la lista Nş 20 liderada por los Dres. Antonio Miori y Daniel Tissieres Ortiz. "Otro factor fue la falta de fiscales que tuvo el menemismo, sin haber podido cubrir la totalidad de las mesas"


"Por más que quiera vestir la mona de seda, mona queda", es la versión recogida en esta ciudad con respecto al golpe de timón que quiso reflejar el ex presidente después de haber tenido un fallido festejo, en el hotel presidente el 27 por la noche, creando más irritación entre el electorado argentino, al ver en ese hotel -caras- de la nefasta gestión menemista de los ańos 90, acá más que el entorno, la elección la pierde el propio riojano, al equivocarse en la estrategia, y falta desinteligencia porque él nunca hubiera entrado en el juego de Kirchner "Calentarse y perder los estribos, en más de una oportunidad", mientras que el santacruceńo, capitalizaba votos, el ex presidente, salía por todos los medios lanzando criticas y amenazas de fraude, que nunca llevo a la justicia, ni tampoco presentó pruebas.


EDUARDO DUHALDE?...

Fue el creador de la estrategia contundente para ser derrotado CARLOS MENEM, primero le hizo la jugada del siglo, no dandolé pelea en el campo interno, después lo deja muy comprometido con el triunfo del 27 de abril, donde el riojano queda en una situación muy difícil de dirimir, que fue seguir o bajarse, sabiendo que cuanto más lo venga a torear el actual presidente, esto fortalece la convicción de Menem para seguir en carrera, aun sabiendo que es derrotado por amplio margen en favor de KIRCHNER.