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...prewar levels, while living standards have plunged by half. Both as a money-saving move and a hedge against defections of senior diplomats, Baghdad has recently had to close 15 embassies. The question facing Western policymakers is whether Saddam's intensified lobbying to end the embargo shows last-ditch desperation, which would argue for keeping up the pressure in hopes of toppling the regime, or whether Saddam has successfully ridden out the storm. In any event, his strategy is clever and multipronged...
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Even though the game sported lots of heart-pumping offense and an almost-successful, last-ditch comeback effort, the Minutemen downed the Crimson...
...Girl Friday, Hildy Johnson wound up with the exacta: she got to ditch her fiance and keep her job. Back then, having it all was getting paid for work you loved doing. Maybe the old days -- and the old movies -- were more modern than we thought...
...weeks ago, when it became apparent that last-ditch trade talks in Washington were breaking down, Hosokawa quietly dispatched a high-level envoy to head off a conflict. When that failed, he sent an even higher intermediary, Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata. But a Thursday breakfast meeting between Hata and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor was ended abruptly by Kantor, who complained that Hata had brought nothing new. After Hosokawa arrived later that day, Hata asked for one last, late-night session. But after three more hours of talks that broke up at 4 a.m., there was still no progress...