Word: war-torn
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...carrot is Western aid to help reconstruct the war-torn region, and the long-term prospect of some form of involvement in the EU. The stick: The U.S. State Department today renewed sanctions against Belgrade, and warned President Milosevic that further repression of Albanians would have the by-now-familiar ?most severe consequences...
Thus was born The Harvard Global Peace Project,Inc., a project that aims to bring 300 youngleaders from 45 war-torn countries around theworld to a Moscow conference in July 1999.According to Burke-White, the project is "myinitiative, with some of [Gorbechev's] visionsthrown...
...floor shakes and deafening curses fill the air. Is this a scene straight out of war-torn Eastern Europe? No--the setting is Harvard's usually peaceful undergraduate common rooms. The cause is not bad grades or even upcoming midterms. It's much more important than that: procrastinating students are playing video games...
...life that can be made to look dashing--you know, the trench-coated stand-upper with the rubble of some dreadful, war-torn landscape stretching out behind the minor media star. It's also a life that can begin to seem feckless--you know, the endless trafficking in scenes of human misery that, no matter how widely they are broadcast, do nothing to halt the flow of tragedy...
...PHRASE] Journalists in war-torn Bosnia...