Word: detailism
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...Where was I when that happened? Where were the Serb people?'" But despite the efforts of prosecutors to draw attention to the massacres at Racak and other killing grounds, Milosevic often successfully kept the focus on technicalities. A few months ago, when a prosecution witness described in detail the discovery of several murdered women at the bottom of a well with injuries to their pelvic areas suggesting rape, Milosevic blithely argued that the victims must have fallen and injured themselves. In caf?s from Belgrade to Bujanovac, a kind of collective amnesia is setting in. "Mass graves? People don't believe...
...gunman stood sentry near the gates of the compound, waiting for an opening as the departing motorcade approached. Inside a luxury suv was Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, who had come to Kandahar to attend his brother's wedding. His security detail, a clutch of U.S. commandos, rode in a separate vehicle. Karzai was on his way out of the compound of Gul Agha Sherzai, Kandahar's provincial governor, who sat beside him in the car, when he was approached by an Afghan youth hoping to meet the President. A leader known for his affability, Karzai lowered the window...
...gunman, Abdul Rahman, 22, who was part of Sherzai's security detail, raised his weapon and pumped several rounds into the car. Amazingly, Karzai managed to duck the bullets. One grazed Sherzai's neck, and another struck a U.S. soldier. A nearby youth, 19, by some accounts the one who had moved forward to greet Karzai, shoved Rahman to the ground. The U.S. commandos then bounded out of their vehicle and opened fire. Rahman, the youth and an Afghan bodyguard died in the fusillade. Back in Kabul that night, Karzai seemed unfazed by his brush with death but aware that...
...seeing my pal as we talked about what we did over the weekend. One cool feature is a button labeled DETAIL/MOTION that let us opt for a clearer picture that got refreshed less frequently or a more fluid one that got a lot more blurry. We both opted for detail but noticed a time lag between our movements and their appearance onscreen. We liked the picture-in-picture feature that let each of us see what we looked like in a small image in the corner of our own screen...
...Karzai's U.S. security detail kept him alive this time, dispatching his would-be killer within seconds. But it was the second credible attempt on Karzai's life in as many months. Keeping Karzai in power - and the Taliban-al Qaeda elements at bay - looks increasingly dependent on substantially expanding the presence of coalition troops. And on the U.S. and its allies getting far more deeply involved in the messy violence of Afghan politics than they had ever intended...