Word: minefields
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Ariel Sharon has started moving his troops, but not enough to make it any easier for Colin Powell to navigate his Middle East minefield. And what emerges when the dust settles on Israel's "Operation Defensive Wall" may make prospects for a sustainable truce even more remote...
...scattering food pouches from aircraft miles up in the sky on a landscape littered with millions of land mines, this ill-conceived effort is forcing starving Afghans to go on an Easter egg hunt in a minefield...
Afghanistan is literally the world's largest minefield - there are some 10 million anti-personnel and anti-tank mines hidden there, which maim or kill more than 20 Afghans a day. And President Bush's stirring speech on Thursday suggests that the administration's campaign to eliminate the Bin Laden terror scourge involves navigating a figurative minefield every bit as dangerous...
...absurd, in a way, because in pursuit of his goal of Christian unity, he's stepping right into a minefield. He'd hoped to have Christendom united to coincide with the Millennium, but instead this visit will probably show just how deeply divided the churches...
...Navigating this minefield successfully is crucial for a dean to win the support of his faculty, and despite the introduction of several new consultative mechanisms under Knowles’ watch, many professors see him as an autocrat. As Killip put it, “there’s only one dog that barks at Harvard...