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...with local officials, had very little to say on strategic matters. But he?d better have the military behind him now. The fighting, which intensified early Saturday when the militants (who may in fact be Chechens) crossed into Dagestan and began taking up positions around local villages, is the worst in the region since the Chechen war, which almost got Yeltsin impeached by the Duma last spring. But Stepashin?s main qualification for the Prime Minister?s job was his ability to protect his boss, and of course he was appropriately confident. "Bandits are bandits, and they must be dealt...
...word-of-mouth. What about those of us who don't have access to all those sources on a regular basis? How do we sort out our opinions? Now, in Sri Lanka, the air seethes with rumors of hidden horrors--torture, rape, looting, murder. Thankfully, in our family, the worst thing that has happened is the burning of my aunt's house 15 years ago. I could tell you stories much worse and much bloodier than that. But it's not my job to tell...
...June 6, 1944. In the months leading up to it, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower assembled an armada of 4,400 ships and landing craft, 11,000 airplanes and 155,000 troops with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Then, having done his best, Eisenhower imagined the worst. Along with a ringing message to his troops, he drafted a different one in case the invasion failed. In it he said, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone." Ike's integrity, on and off the battlefield, gave him unparalleled credibility in the postwar world...
...Alessandro said she hopes students will shine just as brightly on the MCAS tests, despite poor showings in the past. On the May 1998 tests, Cambridge ranked 168 out of 208 school districts and pulled in its worst scores in the fourth-grade language arts test, with 76 percent of students below the "proficient" mark...
...prepared for the absolute worst conditions: medicines, a small supply of food, purified water and a last minute addition--the "wedding ring" to feign I was married and not an eligible, single, foreigner. I was sufficiently scared by my friends' skeptical glances and explicit State Department warnings. On June 15, in Logan Airport, all I essentially knew about my plans for the following six weeks was that I was going to do thesis fieldwork in a small city called Comitan, in Chiapas, Mexico. The details of how I was going to reach Comitan, what exactly I was researching, and most...