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The not-so-hot mother will become defensive, and one way or another the kid will pay the price.
At present-day Cramond, located at the mouth of the River Almond, the Romans constructed a fort in the second century a.d. , at the eastern end of a defensive structure called the Antonine Wall.
The New York Times raises the possibility that Milosevic's defiance shows the bombing strategy was "fatally flawed" and adds that "NATO officials here are on the defensive, insisting day after day that it was not their bombing that sparked the Serbian attacks or the huge civilian forced exodus from Kosovo."
Newsweek 's cover story is so defensive about endorsing the summit and its goal--encouraging voluntarism to help (who else?)
The Washington Post reports that according to intelligence sources, the first wave of the strike caught Iraqi forces off-guard, before they could get very far into their usual defensive practice of dispersing their equipment.