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...months leading up to the Gulf War, Cheney was far more aggressive about countering Saddam Hussein by military means than Powell, who, like Baker, believed that economic sanctions would bring Iraq to heel. Just two days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Cheney was pushing for American troops to go in to defend Saudi Arabia. "Dick was probably ahead of his military on this," Bush wrote in his and Scowcroft's memoir, A World Transformed. Cheney was dispatched to Saudi Arabia for one of the most sensitive missions of the war, persuading King Fahd to agree to a massive deployment...
...preliminaries, Aldrich twice missed the qualifying bar of 1.80 meters. On her final try, she grazed the bar with her heel, but the jump--good by the slimmest of margins--moved Aldrich into the final...
...transition from the old-fashioned high heel (which women wore when I was young) to today's model does not look to me like progress for women. The old heel may have been just as hard to walk in, but was infinitely more graceful. The new shoes look as if they have a Frankenstein life and motion of their own; young women walk in them (ungainly and swaying, waving their arms for balance) the way an inexperienced rider sits an energetic horse that is barely under control. These shoes are a dangerous responsibility. Not much liberation there. In fact...
...Patrick Dorismond was shot to death by New York police, Giuliani smeared Dorismond by releasing his sealed juvenile-arrest records. When he blindsided his wife last week, it was just Rudy being Rudy. He said he was being "honest, direct and decent," but others thought he was being a heel. Giuliani strategists are clinging to the idea that marital discord can't hurt you in a race against a Clinton. But Rudy is running against the wronged woman, not the philandering man. And the pain in Hanover's eyes is not likely to be forgotten by some of the suburban...
What was that all about? Last week's blundering effort by Time Warner Cable to use its local monopoly power to bring the Walt Disney Co. to heel was almost a perfect illustration of how not to run a business. By depriving 3.5 million households in seven markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, of their God-given right to watch Regis Philbin, some very highly paid people at the world's largest communications company leaped into an early lead for a coveted trophy--the one inscribed "Worst P.R. Move of the Year...