Word: war-torn
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...years ago NATO intervened in Kosovo to defend the ethnic Albanians. Now they recognise that Albanian extremism is threatening to destroy the fragile stability in the war-torn province and beyond. As one senior NATO soldier in Kosovo puts it: "They're extremely close to pushing the entire region over the precipice and into the abyss. And that will mean a massive disaster...
Peljto, who fled war-torn Bosnia before ending up in Minnesota for high scool, deflected any questions about next year's Ivy scoring race. The title run should be a free-for-all with Caramanico out of the picture. Besides Hanks and Peljto, Brown guard Barbara Maloni, Penn forward Julie Epton and Cornell guard Deborah Stevens could all contend...
...World War II, the U.S. demonstrated benevolence and wisdom by spending billions of dollars to help rebuild Germany, much of the rest of war-torn Europe and Japan. Today it is unconscionable that the world's wealthiest and most powerful nation has failed to respond to the AIDS crisis with all the economic and technological assets it can muster [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 12]. For the world's only superpower to do anything less in the face of this horrific epidemic's escalating death toll would be regarded by all as a crime of negligence. RICHARD T. NOTKIN Helena, Mont...
...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...
...Conceived by the 50-year-old director, the plot of Hero offers an unexpected twist on a traditional tale set at the violent dawn of the Qin dynasty, circa 220 B.C. China's soon-to-be first Emperor is on the brink of conquering the war-torn land and three of his most passionate opponents (played by Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi) are trying to assassinate him. The Emperor hires one man (the inimitable Jet Li) to stop them. Love, jealousy, rivalry and a flurry of martial arts vivify this ripping yarn...