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Harvard cannot continue to operate within that margin of error and expect to win games against Ivy teams much better than Cornell. The de facto captain of the defense, Balestracci, knows as much...
...happiest consequence of a war with Iraq would be the liberation of its people from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq, who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and built a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. Ironically, a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: As long as Saddam remains in power, the Kurds have international backing for their, but once...
Bush administration officials have said that if disarming Iraq requires a war, its happiest consequence would be the liberation of the Iraqi people from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and proceeded to build a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. But a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: The irony of the Iraqi Kurdish condition...
...resumption of inspections on flawed terms, insisting the inspectors be mandated by a new Security Council resolution clearly setting out strict terms and deadlines for Iraqi compliance before they return to Baghdad. But the draft resolution Washington has circulated reads more like the scenario for creating a de facto beachhead in Iraq for a U.S.-led invasion force. It speaks of inspection teams accompanied by foreign troops based inside Iraq, who would have the power to declare "exclusion zones" around suspect sites anywhere in the country and bar Iraqi officials from entering; of giving officials from the U.S. and other...
...people's candidate." Yes, that line sounds like p.r.-as-populism, but there are plenty of voters who have been disaffected from two-party politics. And as ex-wrestler Jesse Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial election proved, they watch cable TV. American Candidate could become a kind of de facto third party, but without a crazy, short billionaire Texan...