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...course nobody's going to accuse President Bush of wagging the dog for ordering Friday?s air strike by 24 U.S. and British warplanes against five air-defense command centers near Baghdad. Not that President Clinton would have responded any differently to a request by the military to undertake what the Pentagon sees as a force-protection action. Probably as part of an effort to test the resolve the new administration in Washington, Iraqi air defenses had in recent weeks begun aggressively "painting" allied warplanes patrolling the "no-fly" zone with radar signals that enable surface-to-air missile strikes...
...true meritocracy than anywhere else around the world," Buffett told the Times. "You have mobility so people with talents can be put to the best use. Without the estate tax, you in effect will have an aristocracy of wealth, which means you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit...
...exercise. It's like a cork floating to the surface - nobody's driving it; it's driven by its own buoyancy. The issue is who gave the order to begin the surfacing procedure, on the basis that there was no danger on the surface. That was the ship's command, not the civilians. So at least from what we know right now, it's correct to say that the civilians had no hand in the accident. But of course it looks terrible for the Navy that there were civilians sitting at the controls during an accident that killed nine people...
...normal situation, Wente probably would not have been on the court at the game's conclusion. Princeton's leading scorer, junior Mike Bechtold (10.4 ppg), has missed Princeton's past three games with a foot injury. Wente replaced Bechtold in Princeton's starting line-up and should continue to command ample playing time after Bechtold returns...
...inscrutable, certainly, but the idea of Iranian involvement was strongly suspected at the outset and still has not been universally abandoned. More central to Swire's argument: on Oct. 26 of the same year German police raided two apartments of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and found a veritable bomb factory, complete with Toshiba radio-cassette players, explosives, detonators, timers and barometric pressure devices...