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...speak of the needless slaughter of Iraqi troops on the Basra road, but then say that the United States left just enough of Iraq's military intact to cause the revolt to fail, as if it were some conspiracy. Did we go too far or not far enough? Make up your mind. By the way, when you're dodging ground fire in an Apache helicopter, you don't circle enemy tanks until every soldier has left his vehicle. How much time does it take for an Iraqi soldier to leave his vehicle anyway...
...another sort of gaze: the all-embracing, unflinching stare of the pop biographer. Unlike Nancy's, this gaze is without mercy or letup. It can go on for hundreds of pages, unearthing skeletons, resurrecting old grudges, exposing big faults and magnifying little blemishes. Few can survive it with reputation intact...
Some scientists and officials feel the EPA may be overstating the case. Robert Watson, an ozone expert at NASA, commended the study in general but questioned the skin-cancer predictions, noting that the ozone layer still seems to be intact during the summer months, when most cases of skin cancer originate. Some critics also pointed out that Reilly may have timed the release of the report to rally public support for the environment one week before the National Academy of Sciences is scheduled to release a major paper on what the U.S. should be doing about global warming. The issue...
...destroying much of the Iraqi military and telling prospective rebels that we would help them, the United States caused a revolt. By leaving just enough of Iraq's military intact and abandoning the rebels, the United States caused the revolt to fail. Add these deaths to the continually escalating body count from the Gulf...
...there is a trend toward consolidation of the central authority, but it is being offset by the growing self-assertiveness of the republics. Yes, there is pressure from the bureaucracy to keep major aspects of the centrally planned economy intact, but there is also a growing demand, from different regions and industries, for economic independence. Yes, some parts of the Soviet media are now almost as conformist as they were in the old days, but plenty of other newspapers and magazines continue to express the most unorthodox views. Yes, there have been attempts to maintain order by repressive means...