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...Sainte-Agnès residents. Often, in fact, they are ignored or forgotten, left to fend for themselves or die alone. It's a national reckoning that is not coming easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which was on holiday as the death toll mounted. Raffarin has refused to accept any blame, while President Jacques Chirac was bizarrely silent - and on vacation in Canada - for the duration of the heat wave. When...
...Klee's late style had evolved into patterns of heavy black lines and hieroglyphs on vivid colored grounds. Sometimes the lines form discernible figures, as in the sexy Forest Witches, or the powerful Kettledrummer, with one stick-like arm raised high, the other down, as if beating the slow, ceremonial dirge of a funeral march. In the big Rich Harbor only a few identifiable objects - steamboats, an ace of spades - can be identified amid a welter of enigmatic markings. Meanwhile Klee also expanded his experiments with an astonishing variety of materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen...
...allies, and some 5,000 NATO troops staff International Security Assistance based in the capital. That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul. Reconstruction efforts are slow and troubled, investors are staying away and the barbarians are rattling the proverbial gate. Despite two years under U.S. tutelage, Afghanistan remains a failed state. It's not costing the U.S. much in terms of lives and treasure (the Administration even forgot to put money for Afghanistan into the foreign...
...wildfire behaves is determined by many variables, but among the most important are wind speed, topography, air temperature, humidity and, last but not least, fuel load. Variations in fuel load create the equivalent of speed bumps in the landscape that serve to slow fire down, and the problem we have now is that this patchiness in many places has all but disappeared--replaced by vast tracts of forest that are uniformly dense with unburned kindling...
...unaware. Pinpoint strikes require pinpoint intelligence, and on North Korea the intelligence tends to be murky. Even Administration hawks who favor regime change in North Korea tend to emphasize sanctions and blockades, rather than military assault. But there's little support for regime change even by the tactics of slow strangulation among the key regional players - South Korea, Japan and China - who fear that North Korea wold retaliate by starting a war. And while Tokyo is more inclined to back a harder negotiating position from Washington, Seoul and Beijing fear that a protracted standoff will see North Korea take irreversible...