Word: regroupings
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...production and directorial staff deserve sympathy on this account: the opera's plot is gushy and melodramatic in a way that transcends even the often sappy plots of Romantic and Classical opera. A family tries to regroup after the tragic (drunk driving) death of a mother. Daughter Susie, son Junior and Francoise, who is Susie's husband and Junior's former lover, return for the funeral and try to heal various painful wounds from the past. This is the stuff not of musical opera, but of soap opera...
...road to Basra. The Iraqis driving them in many cases were members of Saddam's Republican Guard who at least initially were conducting an orderly fighting retreat. The allies were determined to give them no breathing space to pull themselves together to make a stand -- or to regroup for an assault on the American Army, which had cut them off to the north and stood between them and Basra; the Iraqi armor was heading away from one battle but toward another. In any case, many a general has bitterly rued the day he let a beaten enemy army get away...
...press corps must try to regroup. "There is probably greater public anger with the press than at any time since the end of the war in Vietnam," says First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. In the wake of a successful war, reporters -- who ask tough questions and sometimes bring bad news -- can seem to many Americans like the nerdy hall monitors at a senior prom. To others, journalists covering the war appeared all too eager to accept the military's version of the story. The press's job, however, is not necessarily to please either side -- only to look...
...plan appeared to be compounded about equally of holes and snares. To begin with, the allies have consistently opposed any formal cease-fire before, or for that matter during, an Iraqi pullout (though they would not attack the withdrawing troops). Saddam, they fear, would use any respite to rest, regroup and resupply his badly battered troops in Kuwait. He might then renege on the withdrawal agreement and resume...
...Most impressively, The Civil War manages to convey the horror of war in understated words. After the calamity of George Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee asked the shaken commander to regroup his division to repulse a possible counterattack. "General Lee," Pickett replied, "I have no division now." Following one bloody battle, a Massachusetts soldier's diary was discovered with this entry: "June 3, 1864, Cold Harbor, Virginia. I was killed." With American soldiers poised to fight once again, vignettes like these strike the strongest chord...