Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audiences beyond his borders, the aim is to shatter the Gulf War coalition, weaken resolve at the U.N. and transform the U.S. into the bully. "He may sense that the unity of the sanctions regime is starting to fray," says a State Department official. "The Russians have lots of things at home on their minds, and the Europeans have the Balkans." Saddam wants to ease the constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats...
WHEN WE SET OUT TO ILLUSTRATE A PIECE ON DOMESTIC violence, our picture editors immediately turned to photographer Donna Ferrato. For the past decade, she has focused her energy and camera on the intimate brutalities that shatter the lives of so many American women and children. Says senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who wrote this week's cover story: "It may be that her wrenching photographs have done more to raise awareness than any legal or political debate ever could...
...because it advances the debate about the image of Malcolm X. It will take some time before it is clear what we should think about him. He had said, in an interview the day before his assassination, that the Black Muslims, whom he thought were pursuing him, needed to shatter his image because it had become too attractive to Black folk in the streets. Spike Lee has begun the painstaking work needed to restore that image. The real test for Lee, in my opinion, was to preserve the complexity of the man, and to allow us to watch him change...
...those who knew and loved her. Whether the motive for her shooting was personal despair or a political grudge, it has very frightening implications for what the global fight for ecology and human rights represents to those who dedicate their lives to it. Her murder must not, however, shatter the ideals of those who are still fighting for a world in which both humans and ecology are treated with the love and respect they deserve. I want to honor Petra Kelly by continuing on in her work for humanity and for our environment...
...they hid with their two children, Jo's sister Karen Brocato and several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared in my life," recalls Brocato. "I hope I die if I'm ever that afraid again...