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Totalitarianism often gets the jump on democracy when the two clash. The leader of free people cannot move them to fight except by persuasion and consensus. Hence movement is often belated, after war has already started. So it was with the entry of the U.S. into World War II, and so it was in the present conflict, which began on Aug. 2, when Saddam attacked Kuwait, not on Jan. 16, when the alliance finally struck back...
SUPER BOWL (ABC, Jan. 27, 6 p.m. EST). During the commercial breaks, Coke and Pepsi will face off with big-money contests, while those beer bottles clash again in the Bud Bowl. Oh, yes, and there's a football game...
Arangio's friend, John Mitchell, a 21-year old from North Dartmouth, Mass., says he has personally witnessed the clash of the bar's two worlds...
...battle is the payoff, as the ancient saying goes, and only battle can settle the question of what a war between the U.S.-led alliance and Iraq would be like. Would it be a brief though explosive clash in which American air power would quickly prevail with relatively light casualties? A long, grinding struggle on the ground with the killed and wounded on both sides counted in the scores of thousands? Or something in between...
Dershowitz's accusations sparked an uncharacteristic outcry from an angry Senate President William M. Bulger that made headlines in both of Boston's daily newspapers, which played the clash as a classic episode of ethnic political strife...