The Iraqi doctors and nurses were – according to Lynch herself, whom Faludi interviewed – taking excellent care of her after a devastating car wreck, and trying to return her to the US army.
The stories told by the acquitted on television have been devastating: marriages wrecked, children taken into care, jobs lost, reputations in tatters.
Dominica's prime minister has pleaded for more international aid to help rebuild the tiny Caribbean country after tropical storm Erika tore across the island, devastating villages, wrecking bridges and leaving a reconstruction bill worth half the country's annual GDP.
A few hours earlier, the 55-year-old public relations executive watched as first responders swarmed the mangled pile of steel and bodies following the devastating Metrolink train wreck in Chatsworth, outside Los Angeles.
Asked about the threat of pollution from the wreck and devastating the fragile ecosystem of the sea and lagoon, Vilma was sanguine.
Marrying exemplary reporting with lively, lucid writing, she makes a convincing -- nay, devastating -- case that Levin wrecked the legacy of Henry Luce, the founder of Time Inc., in the service of his ego.
Without going into detail, I can say that it has been devastating... a slow-motion train wreck with no end in sight.
They plan the most savage spending cuts since the 1930s, which will wreck the lives of millions by devastating our jobs, pay, pensions, NHS, education, transport, postal and other services.
Then in January 2001 a magnitude seven earthquake struck, devastating a huge area, flattening cities including the district capital, Bhuj, and wrecking over 8,000 villages.
BAGHDAD In a coordinated attack as devastating as it was ruthlessly efficient, three bombs unleashed minutes apart on Monday wrecked landmark Baghdad hotels catering to foreigners, wilting a tattered sense of security and underscoring the uncertainty of the political landscape weeks before parliamentary elections.
