1.   But could an unseasoned L.A. lawyer create an effective criminal defense bar in a shattered country that had none?

2.   More than a year after the Bosnian guns fell silent, a deadly menace is still threatening the men, women and children of this shattered country.

3.   Svetlana Raykova should represent the hope for the future of this shattered country.

4.   That would allow American and other international aid money to pour in, and permit investors to rebuild the shattered country.

5.   The EU did agree Saturday to send a mission immediately to help in reconstruction and to consider providing a small police force to the shattered country.

6.   The international interest in the reconstruction of Afghanistan offers the best hope in a quarter of a century for a shattered country to turn tragedy into opportunity.

7.   They will also be responsible for protecting relief workers and for the distribution of aid in a shattered country.

8.   With the civil war ebbing and oil prices soaring, the government is taking tentative steps to redirect its vast oil revenues toward rebuilding this shattered country.

9.   Aid agencies working in Somalia said Thursday that security fears after the withdrawal next March of U.N. peacekeepers threatened to torpedo their efforts to rebuild the shattered country.

10.   Although the fighting has ended, Liberia remains a shattered country.