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...doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers, when casualties spilled into the passages: the bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters in August 2003, two major offensives against Fallujah last spring and fall, and the devastating suicide bomb in a dining hall in Mosul last December. Month after month of seeing planes arrive loaded with fresh casualties has also sharpened the cynicism of many staff. Some say they are wary of the upbeat assessments...
...tight spot. Zagreb has overhauled hundreds of laws to prepare for E.U. entry, and has surrendered eight indicted war criminals to the tribunal, braving the protests of many Croatians who deny that Croatian forces committed any crimes during the 1991-95 war against Serbia. Gotovina led the August 1995 Croatian offensive that crushed ethnic Serb rebels, ending four years of war. Del Ponte's indictment charges him with individual criminal responsibility, as commander, for the unlawful killing by Croatian troops of at least 150 Serbs, and the forced expulsion of at least 150,000 others. But to many in Croatia...
...them some important friends. After the sisters told Ted Kennedy that their mother adored President John F. Kennedy, the Senator insisted on speaking to her. Reached by phone, she asked Kennedy, "Are you taking good care of my girls?" The sisters have earned it. --With reporting by Melissa August and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...good as they got, hinting that the old-timers ought to make way for people who actually paid for their Internet services. Feelings are still raw on both sides and are not likely to be salved until the next wave of newbies arrives -- probably from CompuServe, as early as August. If history is any guide, the loudest complaints about the new immigrants will come from those who immediately preceded them -- the next-to-newcomers from America Online...
Despite the contention surrounding the school—and the fact that the fledgling institution still has no building or full faculty—the administrators insist that, come August, school will be in session...