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There is a Kuwaiti resistance movement, but its effectiveness is difficult to assess. A refugee in Saudi Arabia who identifies himself only as Hussein says Kuwaiti soldiers and police distributed weapons to citizens on the day of the invasion, but there is a shortage of bullets. Refugees say that resistance groups mount hit-and-run attacks by night, targeting small units of Iraqi soldiers and military convoys with Molotov cocktails and hand grenades. When Iraq's intelligence service arrived in Kuwait City with a list of names and addresses of Kuwaiti army officers, civilians went around the city removing house...
...test he knew would come sometime, the challenge he has always been confident he could meet. Ten years ago, as he was losing the Republican presidential nomination to Ronald Reagan, Bush shucked off his shoes, loosened his tie, grabbed a beer and took a quiet moment to calmly assess the job he coveted. "You work your ass off, get credit for stuff you're barely involved in and none at all for things you've put together behind the scenes. Domestic problems drag you down and nag all the time. You're up in the polls and down and then...
...gauge health needs, clubs are learning more about their customers. During the New York Health and Racquet Club's "life-style assessment," clients may be asked what they eat for breakfast and how much alcohol they drink. At all 40 centers of the nationwide Club Corporation of America, new members are queried by a fitness specialist about their income level and, to assess their state of stress, whether they have witnessed a violent fight in the past year. Women are asked whether they have had a hysterectomy. "We ask questions that many clubs will not," says Club Corporation's Stephen...
Derek C. Bok has written a book that is an insightful and tough assessment of the performance of American higher education. But as the author enters his last of twenty years as president of one of the nation's premier research universitites, it is a perhaps unintended, but inevitable, consequence that his book will be used as a yardstick to assess the performance of Bok himself and of the Harvard he has shaped...
...know from observation that there have been preventable deaths," says an emergency-room doctor at a private New York hospital. "Ambulances don't get there soon enough. Nurses can't get medicine to patients on schedule. Physicians can't assess all the critically ill patients early. The IVs, the antibiotics and the cardiac medications are delayed. There are no monitors available and sometimes no one to monitor the monitor...