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Opinion - Georgie Anne Geyer

A MEASURE OF JUSTICE MAY COME AT LAST IN SERBIA

Thu Jul 24, 7:58 PM ET

BELGRADE, Serbia -- The arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged in the worst massacre since World War II, was an unlikely yet radical transformation in a country that had appeared to be headed on a path toward virulent nationalism and isolation." -- The New York Times, July 23, 2008

  • HOSANNA FOR POLAND'S UNSUNG HERO Tue Jul 22, 6:23 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- When Bronislaw Geremek was tragically killed in a car crash in Poland in mid-July, most Americans did not recognize his name. Geremek, who? Bronislaw, what? Oh yes, we do know where Poland is -- more or less.

  • QUESTIONS OF WAR Thu Jul 10, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- This presidential campaign is so ungodly long that, every few weeks or so, it seems that we enter an entirely new phase. In roughly the last two weeks, we have found ourselves in a phase that I call "the candidates as men of war."

  • HOPE FOR COLOMBIA'S FUTURE IS REFLECTED IN BETANCOURT'S JOY Tue Jul 8, 6:36 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- In many years of witnessing the faces of men and women in anguishing pain, I cannot recall a face that better exemplified the ultimate in misery than that of Ingrid Betancourt's last week in Colombia. I also cannot remember one that, in the very next moment, better characterized an almost biblical expression of joy.

  • ADAMS AND JEFFERSON CAN POINT OUR WAY FORWARD Mon Jul 7, 6:21 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- As the Fourth of July approached that summer of 1826, John Adams, the second president of the United States and designer of American constitutionalism, lay dying in his Massachusetts home.

  • LOST IN THE KHYBER PASS Tue Jul 1, 6:23 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- It was supposed to be Iraq that was threatened. For at least the last five years, it was assumed by the best American analysts that the strange and ominous tribal warfare at the heart of that historically troubled country would inevitably "do it in."

  • AFRICAN LEADERS MAY BE READY TO TAKE ON MUGABE Thu Jun 26, 7:58 PM ET

    WASHINGTON -- When I visited the British colony of Rhodesia in 1979 before it gained its much longed-for independence as Zimbabwe -- an independence that has today virtually destroyed it -- it was, even then, not difficult to hear ominous musings about the independence leader and soon-to-be president, Robert Mugabe.