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...biggest fear is that the retreating forces will have to fight their way out. Commanders from both Bosnian and Serbian camps crave the U.N.'s light tanks and armored vehicles, which the peacekeepers have vowed to take with them. The Serbs could fire down on the departing columns as they move along the mountain roads. Snipers and artillery could harass convoys ambushed at roadblocks. There are dozens of bridges and tunnels along the way from Sarajevo to the coast, all vulnerable to sabotage. NATO would fight back with armed helicopters, asserting control over localized chunks of the heights while...
...diary, who wins the Sylvia Plath Prize for the most achingly sensitive poem. Even her anthems (the up- tempo House of Cards and Jubilee) have the feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt." John Doe No. 24 is the poignant testament of a blind, deaf boy found on an Illinois street in 1945. And he's not the only lonely one. In Chapin Country, we're all displaced persons...
...Mitt Romney is young, trim and drop-dead handsome. His life mocks Kennedy's controversial past: the Republican is a teetotaler, a never-divorced family man and a self- made millionaire. That should be trouble enough on the campaign trail. But Kennedy faces a far stiffer obstacle: his constituents crave change simply for the sake of change...
...Troops are like children...they crave discipline. The way to preserve discipline is to shoot a man every now and then...
Just because connoisseurs of poetry rarely read the National Enquirer doesn't mean they don't crave sensationalism. Witness the enduring legend of Sylvia Plath more than three decades after the writer's death. Certainly Plath's reputation as a fierce, accomplished poet has endured, but it is the shocking story of her life that really fascinates the literary public...