Serb Leader Is Assassinated. Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was a reformer who helped overthrow and send Slobodan Milosevic to face a war crimes trial. By Daniel Simpson. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Djindjic was a man who walked the line–pushing for reforms, but distancing himself from support from Washington. He showed there was a way for Serbia to move forward walking on its own feet instead of being dragged on its heels. Now, it looks like the way he showed was an illusion.
There's a photo on Yahoo of Djindjic with his daughter, taken in 1999, that tells the story's human side better than words can express here.
Sean M. Gallagher 