September 22, 2000

A Higher-Education System, and a Country, Divided

By COLIN WOODARD

Politicization of Bosnian universities dashes hopes that they would lead ethnic reconciliation

Prewar signs still direct would-be tourists down the narrow cobblestone street to the Stari Most, an elegant 16th-century Ottoman bridge for which this city is named. Along the way, gift shops peddle T-shirts, engravings, sculptures, and key chains bearing the image of the beautiful bridge.

But Kujundziluk Street ends abruptly, its final row of cobblestones hanging at the edge of a

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