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...Saddam's primary audience was elsewhere. His chest-pounding provocations were a classic barbarians-at-the-gate strategy, designed to deflect attention from the dismal economic situation at home, heightened by U.N. sanctions, that has left Iraqis hunting daily for food. His police apparatus has reasserted its grip since the war, so citizens harbor few doubts that Saddam is still in charge. But he may have cause to worry about his 400,000-man armed forces. Kurds and other opponents have spread stories of anti-Saddam moles within the armed forces, particularly those stationed far from Baghdad. "I think...
...Your Man, which opened last week in New York, is a high-tech picture puzzle that allows an audience to pick its protagonist and plot the action. Choices come along every 90 seconds or so in this campy 20- minute caper, and viewers vote with a three-button pistol grip installed on their armrests. The on-screen tallies are instantaneous, thanks to laser-disc technology, and the majority rules. This first film (soon in seven more theaters), has 68 possible permutations. The result is a high-decibel headache . . . or funfest, depending on your age and inclinations...
...companies have done so with the overpowering force of International Business Machines. From gigantic mainframes and tiny laptops to semiconductors and software, IBM ruthlessly called the shots for the entire industry after the computer became a commercial item about 40 years ago. So tight was IBM's market grip that it was practically impossible for any computer company to do business without being tied in some way to the Big Blue colossus...
...resentment and play into extremists' hands. The costs of reviving eastern Germany -- now running at more than $100 billion a year -- are not diminishing. And as Kohl finally acknowledged in a recent speech, Germany is entering the recession that has had much of the West and Japan in its grip. Most domestic political considerations argue against the Kohl government's using the opportunity of the police crackdown to confront German xenophobia. After Molln, though, every humane consideration demands...
...patients, the infirm and deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with her, "and she just goes and works along. And she gives as good as she gets." She is said to live very intensely...