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The Daily Star of Bangladesh paints the Iraqi crisis as a pitiful Iraq against a ruthless aggressor in an editorial Sunday, saying, " 'Defiance' of a despoiled country resonates with a total back-to-the-wall desperation."
Chechens claim to have seized a village southwest of Grozny; Russians said the fighters fled the capital in desperation.
In London, the Times ran a front-page eyewitness piece by Marie Colvin from inside the U.N. compound in Dili about the desperation of the East Timorese who know they are about to be abandoned.
It's true that they were smelly and that the sight of poverty and desperation are not pleasant, and they all told the same self-serving lies for my benefit, and could never remember no matter how many times they were told that white women don't think it's a compliment to be told they have big legs, and they were noisy, although they would pipe down if you cared to go out at three in the morning to ask, which the tourists sure won't.
(You can sense a magazine's desperation when it tries to generate hoopla on both its 10 th and 15 th anniversaries.)