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According to the NYT lead, some things suspected in yesterday's Timor coverage are now confirmed: The U.S. is preparing to fulfill a primarily logistical role, particularly by providing air transport to the ground troops, who will be supplied by other nations; the force will probably be led by Australian troops (and an Australian commanding general); and the Indonesians are expressing a preference for, but not insisting on, a predominantly Asian force.
Does Schoenfeld really mean to compare women writing about women who died in the camps with "a narrow cult living somewhere on a commune and insisting on a macabre sisterhood with the dead Jewish women of Europe"?
There was also widespread suspicion that NATO's war leaders had more to do with the timing of Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour's announcement than she, insisting on the independence of her U.N. role, cared to admit.
A German-speaking stewardess, drafted into an interpretive role by the terrorists, played a heroic role by insisting that all of the Germanic-sounding names were really “pure” German, not Jewish.
The idea is that Crane clings to scientific principle in the face of the supernatural--he dumbfounds the locals by insisting that the killer is human and appalls them by performing an autopsy on a female victim.