Word: trooped
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...each time I teach GWENDOLYN BROOKS, each time I revisit her poems, her words, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths; they tell me where the flesh lives; where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs, "beautiful. Impudent. Ready for life." Where the young "live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along." I never have to ask where are the flowers? Sun? Where are the mothers? Fathers? Where...
...unilateral withdrawal by the Americans would immediately make the situation much worse. It's not just about troop strength. The Europeans already provide the bulk of the peacekeeping force in Kosovo, but even if they made up the shortage in troop strength if the U.S. pulled out, the problem is the message it sends. Everyone in the Balkans knows it was U.S. leadership that got NATO involved in the Balkans. The interventions in both Bosnia and Kosovo wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the Americans, and if the U.S. pulls out its troops, that sends a powerful...
...women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council in New Jersey, recently went to see their mom at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. "I miss her a lot, says Tanyall, a soft-spoken tenth-grader...
...Israel developed new equipment, new forces and new tactics. To secure its borders, Israel deployed more heavily armored tanks and troop-carrying vehicles. Apache helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and very long-range optics were procured. To protect itself internally, Israel issued its infantrymen plastic bullets and other riot-control gear. Special security forces were organized to help relieve the conventional Israeli units of responsibility for keeping order inside Israel. When confrontation with hostile crowds was unavoidable, Israel used restrictive rules of engagement--and snipers to respond to armed opponents--in an effort to minimize losses and avoid dramatic scenes that...
...over the Palestinians has never looked more shaky. Doubts are growing throughout the Middle East over whether the aging, ailing Palestinian leader will be able to deliver on undertakings given to President Clinton at Sharm el-Sheik to rein in militants on his own side in exchange for Israeli troop withdrawals from the entrances to Palestinian towns...