Reading Into

"Djindjic is dead. Long live someone else whose name I can neither pronounce nor spell."

Although my musings are straying a bit afield today, I am thinking about the assassination not too many hours ago of the man who ousted Milosevic in Serbia. I can't help thinking about the Archduke Ferdinancd and how that seemingly isolated event was the linchpin in the circumstances that began the first World War not quite ninety years ago.

It seems that I am not the only one who reads too much into apparent historical coincidences. While double checking my spelling of assassination, I checked on the NYTimes article, Sniper Attack Leaves Leader of Serbia Dead, where the reporter has made the same connection.

Here's to hoping that we are both wrong!