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...spare a thought for what Europe and North America have created together since 1945. Faced with a bankrupt continent torn apart by war twice in a generation, the allies built democratic governments and smothered their ancient hatreds under new institutions like the European Community and nato. They used free trade and galloping technology to grow rich together. They contained a cunning, implacable Soviet Union. And as that evil empire imploded, they managed a soft landing: Germany's unification, nato's expansion eastward, Russia's evolution into a more or less friendly rival, the spread of peace and freedom (imperfectly...
...learned later that Earnhardt's left lap seat belt had torn apart, meaning he may have been thrown into the steering column. No one could ever recall a seat belt failing that way. In the aftermath, NASCAR determined that any new safety rules would not be hurried, and that the next week's race, in Rockingham, N.C., would be held as scheduled...
Another figure of Garden lore, the more widely-known Willis Reed, gave the country one of the greatest sports moments in its history when he limped onto the Garden court in Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals. Having torn a muscle in his right leg in Game 5, the captain and MVP defied expectations and human physiology to inspire his teammates to an incredible victory...
...worst attack against Serbs in the province of Kosovo since the aftermath of the nato bombing in 1999, at least seven civilians were killed and a dozen more seriously injured when the bus in which they were traveling was torn apart by a remote-controlled bomb buried in a drainage ditch. The bus was part of a convoy of five vehicles driving under armed nato escort from the border with Serbia to the town of Gracanica, where the Serbs had planned to visit the graves of their ancestors. Two Swedish armored personnel carriers passed over the 50-100-kg explosive...
...Over the next four days Tatiana (her name and all those of women victims in this story have been changed) was smuggled in the backs of cars across successive borders through Serbia and eventually to a dusty little town in the war-torn province of Kosovo, where she was sold for a second time to two burly Albanian bar owners named Nazif and Luli. They forced her to have sex with as many as four clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor...