1.   American and other Western officials say that national elections in Bosnia, creating a legislature and shared presidency, will help begin stitching the fractured country back together.

2.   But a fractured country is a real possibility.

3.   But beyond that, the feeling that America is a fractured country where neighbors are alienated from one another has been magnified, several Brazilians said.

4.   In the end, the people of that ethnically fractured country must somehow learn to live in peace together.

5.   Like the Portuguese Creole language in which it is sung, the music is seen as a uniting force in a fractured country.

6.   Montenegro and Serbia are all that remains of that fractured country, and Montenegrins are talking of regaining their pre-World War I independence.

7.   New York seemed the most fractured city in our fractured country.

8.   Yeltsin, whose surprise decision to attend was announced only the day before, offered a powerful message of reconciliation directed at his own fractured country.

9.   Christopher and Hunter spoke shortly after voters in Bosnia chose a three-member presidency for the ethnically fractured country in an election carried out remarkably free of violence.

10.   Factions opposed to self-declared president Hussein Mohamed Aidid have agreed to convene a national reconciliation conference in June to construct a government for this fractured country.