Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last fall, I was so outraged by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait that I volunteered to serve in Operation Desert Shield. I did this despite the fact that I was beginning my second year at the Business School...
Last December, I was mobilized into the Army, leaving both Harvard and my wife, Diane behind. I was sent to Saudi Arabia before the outbreak of the war in January and I served as a lieutenant in a Combat Engineer unit throughout Operation Desert Storm. I was finally sent home to the United States...
Although I served most of my time in the Saudi Arabian desert just south of Iraq and Kuwait, I was in Kuwait City last March, right after the end of the war. Many others have written about the joy of the Kuwaiti people after their liberation, but I want to add some thoughts about the real meaning of one man's heart felt "thank...
...color-coded flow chart that tells our editors, writers, art directors and designers when their individual tasks should be complete each week. But the world of journalism has a funny habit of not cooperating with | anybody's flow charts. As a result, for the past 15 months -- through Desert Storm and the Soviet coup -- it's been Oliver's responsibility to ensure that no matter what, the magazine gets to the printers on time...
Jordan benefited from a coalition of blue-collar and rich voters peeved that under Agnos the city seemed more interested in declaring itself a sanctuary for Desert Storm war resisters than in keeping Market Street clean. Long delays in repairing freeways damaged in the 1989 earthquake, while not attributable to Agnos, did not help his image. Meanwhile, increasingly militant posturing by activist gays -- a key group of Agnos supporters -- sent more conventional voters scurrying to Jordan's camp. The final blows for Agnos were a sputtering economy and fewer dollars to spend on costly social programs such as caring...