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...army and police offensives have succeeded only in driving more ethnic Albanians into the arms of the rebels. Even by territorial measure, the government efforts have backfired. In March, two weeks after the rebels launched their surprise attack on the country's second city, Tetovo, a deadly artillery offensive drove them out of villages above the city center. But last month, the National Liberation Army was back in those same towns, and without a shot being fired. In Skopje, residents have begun openly questioning why police cannot even hold territory that they have retaken...
...think it's conceivable that postpartum depression drove Andrea Yates to kill her children...
...exactly what drove her to do this terrible thing - and it's important to remember that psychological disorders don't necessarily have cut and dried definitions. We just look for names to call things by. We do know that it's an incredibly desperate act to kill your own children. And this is speculation, of course, but an act like that probably means Yates felt absolutely helpless and hopeless, and didn?t feel she could get help...
...however, communicate to those six children the need to keep the world at bay. When the authorities took her away last Tuesday, four days after Coffelt got her to bury her husband, the kids went to battle stations. A police deputy drove up to take the children into protective custody. "Where's Mother?" asked Benjamin McGuckin, 14. The officer said she was in a hospital with chest pains and he was there to take them to see her. The boy refused to believe him and, according to Sheriff Jarvis, ran into the house yelling "Get the guns!" The kids...
...same city. You cross over from the U.S. side and see a donkey pull a garbage cart through the streets as you drive out to see the Mexican fiber-optics factories. It felt like a kind of time travel--we just skipped the 20th century as we drove across town...