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Like his hero Stalin, Saddam sees weapons of mass destruction as the great equalizers that give him the global position he craves. A nuke plus a long-range missile make you a world power. Deadly spores and poisonous gases make you a feared one. These are the crown jewels of his regime. He sacrificed the well-being of the Iraqi people and billions of dollars in oil revenues to keep the unconventional weapons he had before the Gulf War and to engage in an open-ended process of acquiring new ones. During the cat-and-mouse game of U.N. inspections...
Lost in all this 21st century-style aggression is the old-fashioned fact that mothers can do something about it. Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes (Crown Publishing), has written a chilling account of the life our girls navigate in their school lunchrooms and hallways. Wiseman and psychologists who study mothers and daughters suggest that mothers--of the victims and the aggressors--can be hugely influential, even after trouble starts. But the first thing a mother has to do is check her own baggage. Even if you were a victim in high school, you shouldn't see your...
...been 12 years since her last novel, but in The Shelters of Stone (Crown; 753 pages) little has changed. Auel's heroine, the plucky orphan Ayla, is still making her way in the spear-throwing, wolf-taming, sexually liberated Cro-Magnon era. Shelters is Auel's Paleolithic answer to Meet the Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts...
...Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov appeared as a guest for various orchestras around the world, finally getting fired from the symphony for spending too much time conducting abroad. DIED. SEATTLE SLEW, 28, the only living winner of the Triple Crown, of old age; in Lexington, Kentucky. Considered the last of the superhorses, Slew won more than a million dollars during his racing career and fathered 99 stakes winners that have earned their owners $75 million in prize money. DIED. YVES ROBERT, 81, prolific French producer and director of several comedies and literary...
After struggling in trips to Texas and Florida, Harvard entered Ivy play with a 3-12 record. But behind excellent starting pitching, the Crimson rebounded to post a 13-7 Ivy mark and a 2-1 victory over Brown in a one-game playoff for the Red Rolfe division crown...