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...mention a girl. Romance indeed fades when the world has only neurotics for its brigands. And therein lies a lesson for the youth of today. If the world of tomorrow is to have creditable and esteemed handits it must have fewer of the uncertain and inadequate kind whose nerves disarm them of true restraint. Nerves in bandits and servants are without excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEUROTIC PICCARESQUE | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

...aggression against the DPRK,” as last week’s radio address put it, seems to be the driving motivation behind North Korea’s nuclear build-up. But then, this suspicion, and Kim’s reticence to disarm and readmit weapons inspectors, is not so surprising after what happened to the last member of the Axis of Evil who acquiesced to inspections. After Iraq, it may take a new occupant in the White House to restore America’s credibility and get rogue regimes to abandon their defensive hostility...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: Ignoring the Next Sept. 11 | 4/7/2004 | See Source »

...calls for violence has crossed a red line that the Coalition cannot afford to tolerate if it hopes to maintain the ability to dictate the rules of the political game in Iraq. For both sides this now may be a fight to the finish, with the U.S. seeking to disarm Moqtada's militias while they seek to force a U.S. withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Iraq's Moqtada Intifada | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...American Princess (“What does she make for dinner? Reservations”), Susan, the White Girl Who Goes After Black Men and Tiffany, the Foxy Flygirl with six-inch fingernails. They argue that by laying these stereotypes out on the table we will be better able to disarm them, perhaps removing their power to shock and hurt...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrating Women | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...Prime Minister, Yvon Neptune, the Americans had had enough. U.S. armored military vehicles surrounded Neptune's office, and as Philippe supporters massed at the gate, annoyed U.S. officials told them sarcastically, "Sorry, we're closed." Afterward, U.S. military commanders called Philippe in and warned that if he didn't disarm he would "be dealt with the same as anyone who gives us hostile interference out there," says a U.S. official. Philippe publicly agreed, though days later his insurgents were still armed and testing U.S. patience inside the capital and the provinces. Their tin-pot bravado was winning them support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One More Show Of Force | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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