Word: withdrawnness
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...only can the Bosnian government not lift the siege, but the situation of Sarajevo today is even more dire than before. Last week the United Nations abandoned altogether its 16-month effort to shield the city from Serbian bombardment. By Monday U.N. forces had withdrawn from the 10 depots originally established to collect and control the Serbian cannons, howitzers, tanks and artillery pieces that were used to bombard the city. Moreover, it now appears that despite protestations it would never do so, the U.N. had in fact made a deal in which it agreed, among other things, not to conduct...
This has a good effect on Juan, whose long incarceration has, understandably, made him depressed and withdrawn. In his condition, as he slowly realizes, he doesn't need or want a simulacrum of his old life back; what he requires is an energizing new deal from a fresh pack. Oddly (and luckily) enough, Carmela is coming to the same conclusion at the same time, propelled by the appearance of a cop (Chazz Palminteri) who starts responding to her wistful, if discreetly displayed, charms as well...
...been on and off like a light switch, but now Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson say they have definitely made up their mind: it's off. A spokesman for the couple (seen here in happier days last year) confirmed that the split was final. Conveniently, Griffith has never withdrawn the divorce papers she filed in March 1994, before the twosome attempted a last reconciliation. Also conveniently, Griffith has reportedly struck up a new relationship-with Antonio Banderas, her (married) co-star in the recently wrapped romantic comedy Two Much...
...conclusion that many Americans already had more than 25 years ago. The war was not against a Communist monolith directed by the Kremlin but against a nationalist government willing to bleed itself white to defeat an "imperialist" aggressor. McNamara now admits that the U.S. can and should have withdrawn at the earliest possible opportunity...
Burnham has since withdrawn his application tothe College...