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...known member of the weak Iraqi opposition, he is not a unanimous choice to inherit the reins of power once Saddam is driven out. Though he enjoys some backing in the White House and the Pentagon, both the CIA and the State Department deride him as a divisive, autocratic blowhard. Since he is a Shi'ite Muslim, Chalabi is viewed with suspicion by many of Iraq's powerful Sunni neighbors, such as Saudi Arabia. The Administration has recently increased contacts with an array of opposition figures, including many military defectors, though a much anticipated conference was scuttled by infighting over...
...time you read this. But it really doesn't matter because the torture started 14 months ago when the Dow (down 10.7%) peaked, and it began in earnest with last spring's meltdown of the NASDAQ (down 58.1%), taking with it the Internet mystique and those cocksure techies and blowhard analysts...
...post-Milosevic world wasn't meant to be like this, but then the idea that the strife in the Balkans was the work of one man was always a dangerous illusion. Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing but a blowhard Serb opposition leader now, but Albanian refugees are once again leaving their homes and a new round of ethnic Serb-Albanian conflict threatens to break out any moment along Kosovo's northern border. At the weekend, the new reformist government in Belgrade set Monday as a deadline for Albanian separatist guerrillas who infiltrated from Kosovo to withdraw from a string...
...Greatest Moment of Genuine Sympathy for Someone's Who's Generally a Media Blowhard: Rev. Jesse Jackson, clearly barely able to hold back sobs in an interview with Peter Jennings...
Americans have always divided themselves into camps--proslavery and antislavery, say, or "Wet" and "Dry." But the computer modem revolutionizes controversy. Every man a king. Every person a moral philosopher (or blowhard) of instantaneous global reach. The written word, once a priestly prerogative, is now power in the fingers of the wired masses...