Word: impressionism
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Whatever their intention, the "leaks" have created a climate in which an Iraq war has become something of an inevitability. The impression of Bush administration resolve - despite repeated insistence that the President has taken no decisions yet - could cow congressional fence-sitters and even Saddam's reluctant neighbors to make...
Rusmir Cisic, a Bosnian muslim engineer, remembers the day his native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone...
Pakistani military intelligence believes, however, that bin Laden left Tora Bora before the U.S. began bombing al-Qaeda positions in the area. Reports about his presence in Tora Bora during the U.S. campaign there have never been confirmed, and the Pakistanis believe al-Qaeda may have deliberately created the impression...
In contemporary Chinese entrepreneur Matthew Ho, who narrates the final section of the novel, Lanchester manages to create a character even more restrained than Tom. Matthew ably illustrates the complexities of running a Hong Kong business after the 1997 handover, but makes such a light impression that he threatens to...
EUROPEAN UNION Sowing the Seeds of Farm Reform The european commission approved a plan to overhaul the E.U.'s subsidy-addicted farming system. Tough talks lie ahead to get all of the Union's 15 member states to agree to the scheme, but countries applying to join the E.U. have...