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The Wall Street Journal front reports that Russian troops have entered Chechnya for the first time since a 1996 truce, and that skirmishes with Chechen troops ensued.
After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich, who reported on his share of culture-war skirmishes as the paper's chief theater critic in the 1980s and early '90s, weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum's week-old exhibit "Sensation."
Naval skirmishes ensued between the two powers, but at the end of the war of succession between Portugal and Castile, the wide-ranging Treaty of Alcaçovas ended Lisbon’s claims to the Fortunate Islands.
The great strength of this book is the way Branch zooms in on the dozens of local skirmishes, from Greenwood, Miss.