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...cold war. The U.S. has promised that Iraq will be disarmed with or without U.N. backing. If the Administration cannot secure a new resolution and goes to war anyway, the U.N.'s relevance to great international issues will be severely undermined. Already, the Iraq crisis has split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union into supporters and opponents of the U.S. position. And this is just the dry, bare-bones recitation of diplomatic facts. It does not begin to engage the private level of anger between officials on the two sides of the dispute, much less the vituperative...
Playing as tightly and with as much synergy as ever, the band backed up the claim that their split was amicable...
Because of the four-regional format, the committee will have an easier time determining seeds. It has said in a report that it will simply rank the teams, No. 1 through No. 16, and split that up into four groups. The top four will be No. 1 seeds, the next four will be No. 2 seeds...
With the court likely to split down the middle, one of his former Stanford classmates could end up casting the deciding vote...
...uprooted by war?become disoriented and depressed. Some take to cheap vodka; brawls are common. But Bayarsakhan says, "I can't afford to drink." Children here are malnourished and sometimes abandoned, says Didi Kalika, who runs a local orphanage. Some residents can't afford heat. Domestic violence flares. Families split. "There have been suicides," whispers Dulamgav, 63, who settled in Chingeltei last year. "The nomads are exhausted," says Rabdan Sambandobji , secretary-general of the Mongolian Red Cross. "If it were only a matter of food and shelter, they would eventually be okay. But these animals were passed down from generation...