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To: zonder who wrote (4781)	2/28/2003 5:25:03 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Dang! And with a little respect for soveriengty, we could have had millions dead. 'Iron Lady' Gets Prison for War Crimes washingtonpost.com By TOBY STERLING The Associated Press Thursday, February 27, 2003; 3:11 PM Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who expressed remorse for the horrors committed against non-Serbs during the Bosnian war, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison for promoting a campaign of murder, rape and torture. The 72-year-old Plavsic - once known as Bosnia's "iron lady" - is the highest-ranking politician from the former Yugoslavia to be sentenced by the court. The sentence sought to balance the heinous crimes Plavsic committed against ... More than 200,000 people are believed to have died in Bosnia, the worst carnage in Europe since World War II....

To: zonder who wrote (4781)	2/28/2003 10:12:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

I don't know what your level of French is, but I doubt if it is so good you can dispute dictionaries, not to mention the author of this article who seems pretty well-versed in the subject. No, my French skills are not so good. But I doubt your verbal skills are so good that you can dispute the point that the most literal translation is not always the most accurate translation to convey the same meaning and implications into another language. The phrase that is the closest in literal meaning may carry quite different associations.