Word: armors
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...golf courses all want to be theme parks, or at least themes. A store selling Christmas trinkets is called Christmas World. There are Bargain World, Flea World, Bedroom Land and Waterbedroom Land. At the Medieval Times restaurant, patrons can eat roas meat with their hands and watch knights in armor joust on horseback. At the Arabian Nights, sheiks steal gossamer-clad princesses during dinner shows. Orange County's most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original...
Penetrating political cartoons are not merely news reporting or even news analysis. They are lamps that illuminate the complexity of issues, spears that jab relentlessly for chinks in a politician's armor, magnifying glasses that invite public inspection of government corruption or incompetence. Cartoonists thrive on controversy, hoping to add reason to the irrational and scope to the sensational...
Democrats, however, are poorly positioned to exploit the tiny cracks in $ Bush's armor. To do that, the party needs attention-getting spokesmen who can make a persuasive case against the Administration. But no leading Democrat has yet dared accept the challenge of running against Bush. The party has fielded just two contenders, who so far seem weightless: Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. When asked about their attitudes toward some Democratic candidates, 74% of those who took part in the TIME/CNN poll said they did not know enough about Tsongas to offer a judgment...
Saddam took aim first at the south, where he gathered the remnants of his defeated army and the armor that escaped the allies into a loyal force that rapidly overwhelmed the weak and ill-equipped Shi'ite insurgents. He dispatched two Republican Guard divisions that had been stationed around Baghdad to ensure the efficiency of the Iraqi troops that had failed so miserably against the allied coalition. This time it was the Shi'ite rebels who were doomed to failure. They lacked a joint command-and-communications system and were dependent largely on weapons and ammunition abandoned by Iraqi soldiers...
...agony. "Going after the helicopters would have been a symbolic gesture, not a serious way to change the outcome of the fighting," said an Administration official. The best U.S. intelligence estimates, he asserted, indicated that "Saddam could have put down the insurgencies even without helicopters by using his armor and artillery. If we were really going to help the rebels, we would have had to target tanks and artillery. That would have turned very quickly into full- scale fighting." And then to extricate its own troops the U.S. would have become involved in deciding who should govern Iraq, a treacherous...