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Kilson calls the criticism of Gates and his several moves "the idle chatter of the rascals." Kilson and other Harvard scholars seem to thinks that Gates will be around for a while. Or at the very least they are hoping very hard...
...congratulatory ugliness of Fenway Park, 79-year-old Tiger Stadium represents the last remaining link with baseball before it became too self- conscious. No park provides more of the sensual joys of the game itself. On a clear night, fans can hear the crack of the bat, the infield chatter and even the ball hitting the catcher's mitt in the Tiger bullpen down the third- base line. The cantilevered closed-in upper deck gives you the impression of sitting in a cherry picker over the umpire's shoulder; the lower-deck bleachers are so close to the field that...
...left a legacy of 12 books. Eleven cannot fail to enhance his reputation; one is likely to erode it. The Journals of John Cheever is not scheduled to be published by Knopf until November, but four long excerpts have already appeared in the New Yorker. They have occasioned more chatter and speculation than anything the author published in his lifetime, because they reveal a private face entirely unlike the mask that Cheever contrived for public view...
Remember all the chatter about a short war? Well, forget it. "We would prefer not to talk in terms of days or weeks but months," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. About the earliest anybody in the Bush Administration expects victory over Iraq is mid-March; British estimates run to mid-April or so. Which of course would still be short by comparison with World War II, Korea or Vietnam, but hardly the lightning victory that the success of the first air strikes on Baghdad had led some commentators to anticipate...
INTELLIGENCE. American satellites can pinpoint every Iraqi deployment and troop movement and pick up electronic signals chatter among enemy units as well. They proved their capability during the Iran-Iraq war, when they supplied Saddam's forces with enough intelligence largely to offset Iran's advantage in numbers. Deprived of this assistance, the Iraqi troops this time will be fighting virtually blind...