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No-Man’s Land

"No-man's land" is the contested area between fighting groups. It can also be a waste or unclaimed area.

How It's Used

“To get there, you must cross what amounts to an international frontier in the middle of the kilometer-wide no-man’s land that bisects the island from coast to coast along the ceasefire line. Although the government of Sri Lanka refuses to recognize it, the Tigers have established their own state, with customs officials, a border control, a uniformed police force, and a full complement of ministries.”

“Instead, I found myself wedged between Simon's high-school friends and his college friends. Feeling more of a ken for the high-school side of the table, I tried to orient myself in that direction, but the effort required a socially and anatomically awkward craning of the neck. I was left in a no man's land—on the fringe of two conversations, an active player in neither.”

"All in all, the Kindle ended up caught in a no-man’s land: it has a number of nifty features and convenient aspects – but also significant drawbacks and a high price tag. All of which leaves many consumers unconvinced that they really need to buy the thing."

"Despite little reliable information to work on, Wilmers has uncovered an extended family that included the agent who ran Trotsky's assassin for Stalin, a close associate of Freud, and a charismatic New York fur trader who made and lost a fortune before the century was half completed. Her book takes in communism and capitalism and the strange no man's land where they did business."

"Diversity is a key to the success of 'FallMauerFall,' which exhibits the varied (and often-illegal) performances that were among the most overt artistic protests of the Wall. In 1982, the artist Stephan Elsner, in his guerrilla art project 'Grenzverletzung' (border incursions) penetrated the heavily patrolled no-man's land between the inner and outer walls -- known as the death strip -- destroyed sections of the Wall and substituted his own paintings. One example, a red, white and black mixed-media triptych, is displayed along with an accompanying video (viewable on YouTube) of the artist in action. Documented through photographs is the fire Kain Karawahn started by the Wall near Potsdamer Platz in 1984."

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