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More than a hundred drawings hung in delicate gold frames fill four rooms of the Lee Gallery. The drawings range from delicate sepia-toned sketches of wooded landscapes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder to vibrant watercolors from lesser-known artists such as Maria Sibylla Marian...
...Small businesses are also feeling the stress. When National Guardsman Robert Harrington, 43, was called up in March, Roy Harrington lost more than just his son; he lost half his two-man staff at Roy's Repair Service in Clinton, Iowa. The elder Harrington doesn't know how to work the computerized diagnostic equipment in his shop, so he will have to cut back significantly on the jobs he takes...
...different views from Arabs throughout the Middle East who bitterly criticize American support for Israel against the Palestinians. Before recent events, they were also angry toward the U.S. for once supporting Saddam's regime, and for standing back while Saddam slaughtered thousands of Shiites who responded to Bush the Elder's call to rise up during Gulf...
Compare America's other wars of the past 60 years. All of them had, if not inevitability, at least a bit of propulsion from forces larger than one man's desire. Gulf War I was provoked by an actual event: Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. George the Elder didn't have to make war, but he had to do something. Vietnam, famously, was never an explicit decision. Even the parody war in Grenada had a few captive American medical students to force its way onto the agenda. Some people believe that Franklin Roosevelt personally, deliberately and even dishonestly maneuvered...
...profile of Uday Hussein, the psychotic elder son of Iraq's deposed dictator, is complete without a mention of his sadistic reign as Iraq's sports czar. In his capacity as head of Iraq's Olympic committee and also of its soccer federation, he is known to have ordered the torture of athletes who performed below his expectations...