Word: broken
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...effort to seize the city began on Christmas eve. But mounting Russian casualties in the face of ferocious Chechen resistance signaled that Moscow would pay a heavy price to capture the city. Despite a six-week siege and constant bombardment of the city, Chechen forces are reported to have broken through Russian lines and reoccupied a number of villages to the southwest of the city. That may be a sign that Chechnya's brutal winter conditions are hampering Russian battle plans by ruling out effective air and artillery strikes, and providing dense fog through which the Chechen fighters are able...
...toys the kids got under the tree last week--Easter Island offers what humanity has always relied on: petroglyphs and taboos and ways of peopling the dark. You walk here through a landscape of atavistic myth, in what can seem a Blair Witch island. Winds from Antarctica roar over broken stone heads and toppled statues in the bare earth. In the local church, the Virgin Mary is a staring-eyed moai, and the baptismal font sits atop a carved head. "Y2K," in the blustery quiet, sounds a lot like "Why today...