Yugoslavia

by Elizabeth Pond. Originally published by our partner site, World Policy Blog.

Last Monday, Yahoo pulled the plug on their once-popular GeoCities network.  If you surfed the web in the late 1990s, then you probably visited your share of GeoCities sites, a big part of the reason Yahoo paid $3 billion for GeoCities back in 1999 (GeoCities were once the third most-popular Web destination).  The idea of GeoCities was that individual sites were grouped by theme into virtual “cities” – for example, Wall Street was the “city” for business-themed pages – it was a forerunner to the social networking sites that would eventually replace it.

On Friday, former Senator Bob Dole took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to sound the alarm over Bosnia.  Without American intervention, Dole warns, Bosnia could again be torn apart by its own conflicting internal forces.