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18 July 1998 Several evenings ago I sat in company where the famous issue of every Serbian get-together was raised: can anything be done to improve our situation? Breach of conventions, which assume good will for seeing some better possibility, occurred once one of the people present asserted that no better possibility exists. Pessimism is […]