Word: verdun
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...that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France have taken an awful toll. In northeastern Portugal, a blaze of some...
...election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct, in the last state, in the last hour, on the last day." No one issue, no one theme, no one gaffe is likely to matter as much as who prevails in a series of Verdun-style conflicts in key areas of targeted states--sometimes even individual neighborhoods. "It's an old infantry expression," says Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, a Bush ally whose state is one of the biggest prizes. "Once you take ground, you have to keep...
...election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct, in the last state, in the last hour, on the last day." No one issue, no one theme, no one gaffe is likely to matter as much as who prevails in a series of Verdun-style conflicts in key areas of targeted states - sometimes even individual neighborhoods. "It's an old infantry expression," says Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, a Bush ally whose state is one of the biggest prizes. "Once you take ground, you have to keep...