War stories: revisiting the ruins of Bosnia.('Necessary Targets')

"Eve Ensler Wants to Save the World," a recent Times Magazine article on the playwright and activist declared in its title, before going on to disparage her for, among other things, having been moved to tears by telling the story of a Bosnian rape victim during a recent benefit performance of "The Vagina Monologues." Ensler's 1996 show took private parts public in rather spectacular fashion, and has become a well-documented worldwide phenomenon. The paperback of the script is in its twenty-second printing; HBO aired a filmed version a few weeks ago; and such is the extent of the show's penetration into the culture that at any given moment someone somewhere is sitting on a ...