Category: Media Watch

 Mr. Martin Sletzinger Director East European Studies Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, D.C. 20523 Dear Sir: It is rather appalling to see so much false information coming from a history professor. I am referring to the article “The Fear of…

 I wanted to share 2 good things with people which appeared in recent American magazine. Travel & Leisure had a cover story on the 50 most romantic hotels in the world. In light of the…

 From today’s NY Times. John Kraljic February 6, 2002 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Designed to Stand Out in a Crowd By JOHN HOLUSHA The builders and operators of the new Westin Hotel, which is scheduled to open this November…

 http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/europe5.html Bosnia and Herzegovina HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS The return of displaced persons and refugees remained the principal unresolved rights issue confronting the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The major political development was the formation of non-ethnic-nationalist governments at…

 http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/europe7.html Op-ed They need some serious letters about serious subjects. For example Croatians in Vojvodina and Boka and Bosnia Herzegovina nb Croatia HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS President Stipe Mesic’s government often failed to confront entrenched ethnic Croat nationalists obstructing reform, particularly…

 Marcus Tanner’s book “Croatia: A nation forged in War” has just been updated for a second edition in paperback. It was the first sympathetic English language history of Croatia of note to be published in…

 The BBC does seem to recognise Croatian as a language, look: <A HREF=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/european_languages/countries/cr oatia.shtml”> http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/european_languages/countries/croatia. shtml</A> BBC monitoring still use “Serbo-Croat”. I will be writing in due course. The BBC also has News in Croatian. I have no idea…

The New Republic, 1220 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036E-mail – tnr@aol.comI came across a passage in this week’s The New Republic. The article, acover story, is by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (a…

Dear colleagues, clients, investors, funders, and friends:Did you know that less than one-quarter of America’s private firms honor Martin Luther King Jr. by CLOSING on the NATIONAL HOLIDAY in his name? Globalvision…

Dear All,We Will Win this battle. No doubt. We just have to learn that others are doing it too and better then us for a long time. It takes some risk, financing,…

Bill Kurtis/Curtis of A&E Investigative Reports- is a Croatian American. Spread the word to all. His original spelling was Kurtej. Maybe he could help fix this mess, I sure don’t think he…

Click Here: Crown Home PageI wholeheartedly agree.The HRT did a 2 cassette History of the Croatian People in the early 1990sin English. It wasn’t too bad, but needs work.In the post-1995 period,…

Click Here: Crown Home PageAs you can see, The Orange County Register has irked me again so I wrote the following letter yesterday (bellow). Today I received a nice letter in return,…

Click Here: Crown Home PageThe Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Editionhttp://www.encyclopedia.comPlease someone check under “Croatia” all of the incorrect inputs. I am sure there is a lot to do. But, if not we,…

Click Here: Crown Home PageHi Nenad,Just to let people know how letters get results. Amazon.com has removed Yugoslavia from it’s International/European Cinema catagory and in its place, has added the country as…

Click Here: Crown Home PageLondon’s Evening Standard compared Britain’s dire railways to Croatia. Don’t have the full article but extracts appeare on the Croats in the UK board:”Even Croatia beats Britain on…

Click Here: Crown Home PageFor a sample how to make easy for us Croatians to get politically active please see the interactive political web page at the National Organization for Women www.now.org/congressThere…

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This text appeared in “W” magazine, the November 2001 issue. I must commend your article on Dubrovnik, Croatia in your most recent September issue. I have been fortunate enough to travel to many beautiful, exotic…

Dear All, Good bad or indifferent here we come. This is an unedited letter from an editor. Stream of consciousness. When the spaceships will make daily flights between galaxies, I want this few gigabytes to be…