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UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE. Neither AIDS nor a serial killer can deflect the sexual searching of the young men and women in this punk-poetic, MTV-style thriller, full of quick verbal riffs and crosscut scenes, transferred from a Chicago hit to off-Broadway with stellar acting by hollow-smiled Clark Gregg...
...political terms, a coattail campaign could be a twofer. Until now, Bush has testily sought to deflect his obvious lack of interest in domestic affairs by claiming he does indeed have a domestic policy -- while at the same time saying that those who think otherwise should blame obstructionist congressional Democrats, not him. "If you run against the 'Do Nothing' Congress, as Truman did in 1948," says Bond, "you can both lower expectations of your own plurality so you're not called a loser even if you win, and you can put the Democrats on the defensive. A non-coattail campaign...
...Saudi task forces launched an assault across the feared "Saddam line" of fortifications into eastern Kuwait. In the northward plunge along the coastline they had an unenviable double duty: to deceive Baghdad into thinking that all of the allies were massed for a frontal assault, and to deflect Iraqi defenders from U.S. Marine crossings farther west. The Saudi-led Arab forces "did a terrific job" in breaching "a very, very tough barrier system," Schwarzkopf said, noting that they had been "required to fight the kind of fight that the Iraqis wanted them to." Some Kuwaitis in the Saudi force kissed...
...free market, except the oil industry." Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas, who works with corporations that suffer from image problems, concurs. "People resent powerful entities that control necessities like oil," he explains. "We can actually gain psychological control by hating them." Berglas also suspects that some civilians deflect their anti-Iraq feelings toward Big Oil, a more accessible target. "You and I are not flying F-15s," he says. "But we can really be ticked off at the oil companies for supposedly reaping profits off misery." And never mind whether it makes sense...
...early to say whether the Pentagon's grand doctrine of fighting superior numbers with superior technology will ultimately prevail. It may yet be possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall to the ultimate biological...