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...shards of flying steel. Eight were so badly mangled it was impossible to tell if they had been men or women. The dead were loaded into cars and pickups and even a dump truck, hastily transformed into a hearse. Rescue workers dragged the wounded out on blankets and torn canvas, but the hospitals, already crowded with victims from a shelling the day before in nearby Dobrinja, were overwhelmed. The wounded lay in blood-spattered hallways, moaning for help...
...West is also discovering that once a nation engages to bring war-torn countries relief, it is almost impossible to disengage. Last week Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited the British troops in Bosnia to see if it might be a smart time to get them out. He came home full of admiration for the soldiers fighting to deliver aid despite constant danger. Britain's participation in the humanitarian program -- as frustrating as it is -- is popular enough that one Foreign Office official admitted "withdrawal would be difficult domestically...
Unfortunately, Roth agreed with his hostile reviewers. He had developed strong Communist sympathies and gamely set about writing the proletarian novel his conscience demanded of him. That was where his long troubles began. Torn between his artistic instincts and his political beliefs, he produced only a small portion of his second novel and then sank into decades of painful silence. In 1939 Roth married Muriel Parker, a composer and pianist, a union that would last 51 years until her death in 1990. The couple had two sons, and Roth did what he could to support a family. During World...
Intersection is -- earnestly, self-consciously -- a movie for grown-ups. It is made by veteran adults (director Mark Rydell; writers Marshall Brickman and David Rayfiel). It takes up a "mature" (if not exactly original) theme, that of a man torn between the responsibilities of marriage and the delights of a young mistress. It comes to an ending that is both tragic and neatly ironic. And it is a movie that does not for one minute draw you into its life, make you believe in its reality...
...Missouri River had torn the Everses' mobile home from its moorings and dashed it against a utility pole. Cedar City, a hamlet of fewer than 500 people where Tony was born and where the couple had married, was totally deluged. "Everything was wiped away," Missy told Lewers. "The whole town was gone." For the next three months the couple and their sons Mark, 9, and Corey, 2, stayed in motels and apartments across the river in Jefferson City...