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Even as the mopping up phase continues, one thing is clear: The military campaign in Afghanistan has affirmed the overwhelming power of America's war machine - in the eyes of both friend and foe. Saddam Hussein, more than most, has reason to be nervous. President Bush drove home the point Monday in a sharp warning to the Iraqi dictator to readmit United Nations arms inspectors or face unspecified consequences. But that doesn't necessarily mean the war against terrorism is about to target Baghdad...
There?s also a ring of truth in the dialogue. During his video for the VH-1 Awards, Zoolander?s foe Hansel says, "Do I know what product I?m selling? No. Do I know what I?m doing here today? No." It?s not that models are dumb, it?s that they seem dumb, like any average American teenager plucked from a rural high school and dumped into the cynical big city...
...Afghanistan is famously resistant to outside interference. Ask the Russians. "When the Soviets came, they wanted to change the country overnight, abandoning tribal codes that existed for centuries," says Nelofer Pazira, an exiled Afghan journalist and dedicated foe of the Taliban who stars in the film Kandahar (see box). "People were appalled. They went completely in the opposite direction. Even more liberal families became very conservative...
...whether the Americans were serious about helping tilt the balance in favor of the Alliance. The sustained bombing of the past two days has changed all that; the question now is whether the Alliance has the capacity to overwhelm a more numerous, better armed and perhaps even more motivated foe and prove itself a capable proxy for a ground war against the Taliban...
...Crimson rebounded on Sunday and put forth a dominant defensive effort to defeat crosstown foe Boston University 1-0 on Senior...