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...Saddam did manage to convince majorities in the Western democracies that the war against him should stop, fewer soldiers would die, not more. So invoking the sacrifices of our fighting troops is a red herring. But critics of the reporting from Baghdad make a more elaborate argument as well. Scenes of dead Iraqis, they say, will inflame the famously flammable Arab masses. Uprisings will threaten the Arab governments in the anti-Saddam coalition. This could force President Bush to start a ground war earlier than he otherwise might. And therefore more soldiers would...
Instead of a cure-all, scientists say, betacarotene might just be a "marker"--a biologicalred herring which does little for the human body,yet always shows up in a healthy diet high invegetables and fiber...
Among these budding stars are trumpeters Terence Blanchard, 28, Roy Hargrove, 21, Philip Harper, 24, and Marlon Jordan, 20; pianists Marcus Roberts, 26, Geoff Keezer, 19, and Benny Green, 27; saxophonists Branford Marsalis, 30, Christopher Hollyday, 20, and Vincent Herring, 25; guitarists Mark Whitfield, 24, and Howard Alden, 31; drummer Winard Harper, 28; and organist Joey De Francesco, 19. At the superstar end of the scale, of course, sits young Harry Connick Jr., 23, the slicked-back New Orleans-born entertainer who started out as a jazz-piano player but has crossed over into show business as a Sinatra-style...
...state asserts that some four miles of coastline remain heavily oiled (1,100 miles were initially affected). Exxon counters that water-quality reports have been positive and that the sound yielded record catches of pink salmon (43.4 million) and herring (8,300 tons) this year...
...self-esteem issue is a "red herring," counters historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "No minority group is doing better, at least as far as higher education is concerned, than Asian Americans. They don't have many models in our history books." Other educators worry about judging a curriculum solely on the basis of its treatment of racial and ethnic issues. "If you take this to its logical conclusion, you get Lebanon or Northern Ireland," says Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction...