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Conmen
The chain of St. Slobodan
Biljana Stepanovic
August 8, 2000
So it happens that the latest bate, thrown by the legendary Agency for Reconstruction, caught many gullible fish. And the bate is, as usual, done in a conmen manner - cheap apartments are offered, on credit up to 20 (twenty) years. The interest is miserable five percent per year. The bankers, until know giving credit only up to three months, but preferring those up to 30 days and with interests up to 30 percent per month, are stunned.

We'll be splashing about yet
Vaca J.
August 7, 2000.
They say we should avoid wearing dark clothes in this weather because they absorb the heat. The girls of this city seem to have taken it seriously so they're wearing virgin purple only. It's quite difficult to find white or possibly black T-shirts - everything's pale purple. It's particularly hard to find white T-shirts with black or black ones with some white. They'll ban such T-shirts by law, in all probability.

Ten years of multiparty system
States are being killed too, don't they?
Bojan al Pinto-Brkic
August 1, 2000
Milosevic has officially abolished the state on July 6th in that nice building behind the horses. He doesn't need it. Has anyone interfered? Let me rephrase the question: has anyone been thinking of interfering?

Footbal times
Folklore
Dr Fairday
July 30, 2000
I have no firsthand information on this phenomenon because I've never been at a football stadium to watch the whole match, but I'm therefore able to observe things impartially at distance. Well, I've noticed new action in this game: when the guests have no fans of their own in the stands, 'auxiliary troops' for reanimating the dance join in.

CONMEN
Who Has the (Peoples') Money - Has the Power
Biljana Stepanovic
July 23, 2000
When all is summed up, it turns out that the regime has not spent anything on the revitalisation, but rather profited from it. Not only in dollars, but also in valuable public image points. Whatever they decide to do, they reap the profits and we pay for them.

Yugoslavia, grow all stronger
World Record Setter
Ivan Torov
July 14, 2000
Try, for one, to find out whether anyone in the recent history (for farther history I don't guarantee) managed to dismantle such a number of states in a single decade, found even more new ones, and remain after all that undented in his intent to improve the record. The old lady, fatigued Europe, may be more than pleased. Our local stateruiners and statefounders have inflated a new life into her, and she must be grateful eternally.

The Marshal's Plan for Serbia
Dragan Milosavljevic
June 22, 2000
Even illiterate and poorly educated citizens of this state South of the equator, who tend to be the symbol of backwardness and political illiteracy even here, managed to recognise a seemingly humane offer for what it really was - the path to dictatorship of a man with selfish intentions, who is prepared after a lengthy period in power to bargain with the most valuable assets of his nations and even provoke a civil war. All in the name of the people.

The Beginning of an End or the End of a Beginning
Bojan-al Pinto-Brkic
June 8, 2000
Encouraged by the large numbers of people attending the rally organised for the official opening of the temporary bridge in Novi Sad and small numbers of opposition-oriented citizens gathered for the most recent demonstrations in Belgrade (I don't seem to recollect what has been the actual occasion for the protests), Milosevic has overestimated the stability of his absolute power. By striking where the alternative is the strongest he has made a decisive step towards putting an end to the ten-year-long simulacrum of normal life in this country.

The Lightning Rod In Our Hands
Dragan Milosavljevic
May 15, 2000
It looks as if the May 9th threats against "power and injustice" could rather turn out to be a challenge to another game of strategic poker, in which the proverbial passionate gambler, who often enjoys the game more than the profits, wants to return everything he lost. Or loose everything he has left.

Serbian phenomena: Crown, Church and Opposition
From Village to Village, from Athens to Harvard
Ivan Torov
April 27, 2000
When the heir to the throne of the Serbian court "in exile", Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, addressed the present leaders of the opposition in "pure" native language at the weekend gathering in Athens with "trust yourself and your own horse", probably none of the attendees understood as some sort of slap.

The world survived, what about us?
Millennium Bug
Boris Milicevic
April 4, 2000

Serbia at the threshold of Apocalypse
The Fatal Attraction to Self-Destruction
Ivan Torov
March 8, 2000