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...Saddam also has weapons of mass destruction. Is not the crux of all this the fear that Saddam is a loose cannon with terrible weapons that must be eliminated...
...gubernatorial race that continuesto dominate the dinner table discussions of campusDemocrats. And members say that widespreadperception of Silber as a loose cannon and Weld asa moderate has begun to chip away at personalparty loyalties...
Awful superlatives issue forth like cannon fire from PBS's documentary series The Civil War. More than 620,000 Americans died during the conflict, more than in World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined. At the Battle of Antietam alone, 23,000 were killed or wounded, the bloodiest single day of the war. By 1864 the Union Army was the largest in the world, and Washington the most fortified city on earth. The Andersonville, Ga., prison housed so many Union POWs that it ranked as the fifth most populous city in the Confederacy...
...Bicker's participants find a home, or at least a dinner table. And so, at the very end of Bicker, while the chosen few are welcomed through the distinguished doors of Ivy, or Cottage, or Cap and Gown, and while those less fortunate console themselves with Court, or Cannon, or Quadrangle, the scattered leftovers must gather on Ivy's back porch. There, they are claimed by reluctant club presidents who previously rejected them. These unlucky, unwanted few are the "Hundred Percenters...
...narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving 9 in. into the ground with a clearance of one-sixteenth of an inch. A bewildering array of possible shots -- the simple roquet (a straightforward hit), the croquet (a split shot) and others, like the bisque, the take-off, pass roll, cut rush and cannon, that are too intricate to describe -- must be calculated a dozen moves in advance if a player is to peg out for a finish against a single stake in the center of the lawn. It helps to have a sadistic streak since it is as important to hamper an opponent...