Word: defenselessness
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...cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo--while not destroying as much Serbian military equipment as analysts initially thought--kept these forces largely undercover...
...Gayle King, O's editor at large and, more important, Oprah's best friend. King, a former TV-news anchor, is charged with ensuring that Oprah's voice is heard at every key editorial turning point. As King strode in and handily usurped the interview, she demonstrated how defenseless the magazine professionals must have felt in the face of the combined force of Winfrey and King...
...Islamic fundamentalist mujahedeen warriors from Afghanistan, Iran and the Mideast played a significant role in keeping Bosnia afloat in the early years of the war there, when sanctions maintained by the West left the republic almost defenseless against Serbia and Croatia. But Kosovo played out very differently, and would be a tough nut for Bin Laden to crack. "Nobody ever found any Bin Laden links to the KLA in Kosovo," says Calabresi. "Both the KLA and the Albanian government were aggressive about keeping the mujahedeen out of the conflict because of Washington's concerns. Although Bin Laden might find...
...human being's personhood bases human rights on an arbitrary decision and can be used to justify infanticide just as easily as abortion. Further, HRL believes that tying the value of human life to its "quality" is extremely dangerous and can justify the killing of the weakest and most defenseless members of society...
...definitely had the easiest subject to photograph. Aaron was born to perform: to a room, in an article, for a camera. And make no mistake, he's performing here. He may look defenseless, but he's on top of the world. He's got a girlfriend, he's got a job. More important to us, he's got FM organized. He's the magazine's backbone, really. And wouldn't you just die to pinch those cheeks...