Word: aftermaths
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...feats of preadolescent derring-do as a surfer and skier that are unimaginable by today's nurturing parental standards. It may have been his familiarity with physical danger, and his calmness in the face of it, that saved Ollestad on Ontario Peak. It helped him manage the psychic aftermath too, to put a frame around it. To the Ollestads, life was "raw and wild and wonderfully unpredictable." To be paralyzed by fear of it, by the inevitability of pain and loss, would be the real tragedy...
...long career, Hill has put together a useful tool kit for handling protracted negotiations (like those in North Korea) and the aftermath of ethnic and religious conflicts (in the 1990s, he worked with special envoy Richard Holbrooke in the Balkans). It may help too that Hill has a reputation for being approachable and unburdened by ideology. In Iraq, he will need all his diplomatic skills and then some. Iraqi officials like to say they want the same things as the U.S., though they don't like American lectures on how to get them. But Hill has already learned that...
...being staged, making information-gathering from would-be participants impossible. Later, Internet connections were reduced to snail speed, and satellite television was almost entirely jammed. It was becoming impossible to report on events. The only "news" left unblocked was that propagated by state television. (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's presidential election...
...were designed, the group said, to mask the regime's "fear of the Iranian people's nationwide uprising and the fact that many young people are being drawn" to the NCRI's drive to remove the mullahs from power. (See pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...
...pictures of Iran's presidential elections and their turbulent aftermath...