Word: apartness
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...Apart from one story in the crisis-coverage package in the first week after the attacks, Stein has not been as busy as usual...
...plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative political forces on the ground...
...pullout of U.S. troops from Beirut after a 1983 truck bombing there killed 241 Marines, and the withdrawal from Somalia after 18 U.S. soldiers died there. He plainly thinks a large enough number of attacks will lead the U.S. to withdraw entirely from the Arab world and even fall apart as a nation. He connects the crumbling of the Soviet Union to Moscow's defeat in Afghanistan at the hands of local Muslim rebels he aided. In 1998, bin Laden told ABC reporter John Miller, "There is a lesson here. We are certain that we shall prevail over the Americans...
...been called aloof, keeping himself apart from his friends and would-be fans. But if BARRY BONDS was excited about the personal race he was in, he kept it as low key as possible, putting the individual quest for history in second place to his team's struggle to get into the play-offs. And on Friday night, the San Francisco Giant slugger did his part, hitting not one but two home runs during the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history (4 hr. 27 min.). The first of those blasts (photograph above) broke the record...
Rose had little trouble picking apart the Big Red secondary, beginning with the very first drive of the day in which he connected on 3-of-6 passes for 60 yards. As usual, Rose’s favorite target was Morris. After being held in check by Northeastern’s double-coverage last weekend, Morris scorched the Big Red defense on Saturday, finishing with 157 yards receiving...