Word: fragment
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...army to rally the country against him. An emerging candidate is Nazar Khazraji, a former Iraqi chief of staff who defected in 1996 and is living in Copenhagen. Khazraji can rally the professional military against Saddam, experts say, and would reassure the Saudis and others that Iraq won't fragment into Shi'ite and Kurdish enclaves. But Khazraji's close ties to the seat of power in Iraq create problems for him. A court in Copenhagen is considering bringing war-crimes charges against Khazraji for the massacre of Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. Khazraji says the blame...
...picturing Bronson’s partner and their newborn daughter. Bronson, in an eloquent delineation of purpose, states that “each of us is dying and each of us is being born, each of us is bearing anew, and each of us is a fragment carried along in this river of love we call life...
...FAITHLESS This is Ingmar Bergman's third retelling of an autobiographical fragment about one of his failed, youthful love affairs. But this time he's added a darker layer of melodrama to his screenplay; Liv Ullmann has burnished her direction with a forgiving glow, and in Lena Endre the two have found a perfect new generation Bergman heroine--beautiful, strong and rueful...
...complaint, Cambridge lays out two claims about the redistricting. First, the suit asserts that the new districts “unduly fragment and divide the city of Cambridge”—and thus violate a state law which stipulates that neighborhoods must be kept together in redistricting...
...wealth allowed us to import the most expensive consumer commodities, but we could not overcome our suspicions of outside political and ideological goods: democracy, secularism, the state of law, the principle of rights and, above all, the concept of the nation-state, which was seen as a conspiracy to fragment our old empire...