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...Yeltsin, whose administration brokered the November deal that brought UNSCOM inspectors back to Iraq, could be frustrated by his envoys' lack of success this time. Then there's the Duma, which adopted a strongly-worded pro-Iraq resolution Wednesday. Finally, the Russian president has form for such bluff and bluster. Remember his promise to slash Russia's nuclear forces by a third, later dismissed as "tiredness"? Still, in the slide toward crisis, this is one threat Clinton can't afford to ignore...
...Nukes Is Good Nukes As the White House drums up support for a military strike on Iraq, the Pentagon ominously refuses to rule out the use of nuclear weapons. But our TIME correspondent says it's all bluff and bluster...
...Crimson quotes Epps as saying, "We are determined to find and utilize every effective means to prevent a tragic injury or death from occurring at Harvard." Such self-serving bluster only undermines Epps' efforts. If his statement is to be taken seriously, Harvard should concentrate on preventing its students from driving cars, which have taken the lives of several of the most beloved members of our community. Why instead the focus on alcohol consumption, which has not to my knowledge led to a single death or serious injury on this campus? The answer perhaps lies in his qualifying, "at Harvard...
...Fayed's public persona, all bluster, defiance and eccentricity, has done little to burnish his image. He is reportedly obsessive about personal security, employing a large number of bodyguards. He is litigious, and his dismissal of scores of Harrods' employees also invited litigation against him. And despite the riches he flaunts--a fleet of 64 Rolls-Royces, properties on London's Park Lane, a $32 million yacht--his record as an entrepreneur is very mixed. Last year the board of the weekly Observer rebuffed al Fayed's attempts to buy the paper, saying it was not for sale...
...this is just the writer, Brian Helgeland, and the director, Richard Donner, having their little misleading joke. For we soon see that underneath the crazy bluster, there is a certain woozy sweetness about Jerry, something suggesting that he is in occasional touch with rationality. Alice (Julia Roberts), the Justice Department attorney he's spying on, notices it too. She's uncommonly patient on the several occasions when he bursts out of the shadows and intrudes on her otherwise orderly life, babbling--well, yes--Conspiracy Theory...