Mirsada Buric, a financial services advisor at BBVA Compass bank in Prescott, Ariz., sets up checking accounts and sells insurance, mutual funds and variable annuities. “Being rich,” she says, “does ...

Maybe you remember Mirsada Buric, the runner with the bad-fitting shoes who was given the world’s heart for one night in Barcelona. She arrived from war in Bosnia. She had been arrested, jailed and ...

NEW YORK — For her master's thesis at Columbia University's journalism school, where she graduates Wednesday, Mirsada Buric wrote about herself. More specifically, about four months in 1992, when her ...

I once shared in this column the story of that Balkan girl from Bosnia, Mirsada Buric, who risked her life training under war-torn conditions in the streets of Sarajevo (the capital city) in the ...

Most athletes train for the Olympics by eating healthful meals, by working out in splendid and safe isolation, by seeing a sympathetic doctor if they have so much as a sore toenail. This is how ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Mirsada Buric is a 22-year-old, Olympian middle-distance runner from Sarajevo. Only the last part is extraordinary. She wears stylish sunglasses, lots of rings, laughs easily and ...

NEW YORK–For her master’s thesis at Columbia University’s journalism school, where she graduates today, Mirsada Buric wrote about herself. More specifically, about four months in 1992, when her ...

Mirsada Buric, a financial services advisor at BBVA Compass bank in Prescott, Ariz., sets up checking accounts and sells insurance, mutual funds and variable annuities. "Being rich," she says, "does ...