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Good news from Serbia: a reformer, Boris Tadic, has won the presidential elections, making him Serbia's first democratically elected president since World War II. Tadic, 46, is a good guy, a true "liberal democrat," from the Democratic Party of assassinated former Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic. A Sarajevo born psychology professor at Belgrade University, Tadic has long been an advocate of sending war crimes suspects to the Hague. I got to know some of his staff from the bad old days when they were risking their lives in the opposition to Milosevic, and they were impressive, serious, young, pro-western, and pro-human rights. This is especially good news because Tadic's victory means the defeat of an ally of the notorious assassinated war crimes suspect and war profiteer, Zeljko Raznatovic, a.k.a. Arkan.