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...great expense in wealth and blood, it would gain nothing in the aftermath that it did not have before the current crisis: safety from invasion. And any outcome at all would be disastrous for Western and especially American interests. Nobody can even bear to contemplate an utterly improbable Israeli defeat. But if Arab leaders are humiliatingly defeated, the most likely outcome of a war, the fundamentalists would have their first real chance of coming to power. Arafat's ineffectual strategy and utter recklessness have thus caused a crisis that induces all, even the Israelis, to wish him a long life...
...Harvey--as you might imagine--will not admit defeat. Business, he notes, has been good in spite of all the colorful problems. Cost overruns on Gangs of New York have been softened by sales to foreign distributors, which, according to Harvey, should limit his company's investment to less than $30 million. The job cutbacks, he points out, have simply brought Miramax back to October 2001 levels. "We just didn't need to have all that staff around," he says. According to Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the Weinsteins still enjoy strong support from their parent company. "They may get under...
...soldier. I am sure, however, that all military leaders would call the battle for Shah-i-Kot a crushing defeat for al-Qaeda. Even if we estimate conservatively that 480 al-Qaeda fighters were killed (at the price of eight Americans) over the course of an intense battle, a kill ratio of 60 to 1 is the stuff of martial dreams. Seven of the men died owing solely to our very difficult decision to leave no Americans behind. A redoubtable enemy with suicidal tendencies was routed. This was not a U.S. debacle, and it certainly wasn't Mogadishu redux. HARRY...
Cornell was without two of its best singles players, and the Crimson took quick advantage. Lingman and Chu won the first two singles matches, with Chu cruising easily, 6-2, 6-1. Nguyen fell to defeat in the third slot, but sophomore Mark Riddell won the No. 4 singles 6-3, 6-0 and Turner took the No. 6 singles point...
...Musgrove says he may have to veto the whole budget and start again. The governor tried that tactic last year, and it backfired spectacularly when the legislature overrode him. It was a humiliating defeat, especially for a Democratic governor whose party holds a large majority in the state house. That's just one indication of how ugly the battle over Medicaid has turned...