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...Editor's note: The Committee on Balanced Journalism would like to interrupt this flagrantly biased blather to present the alternative opinion of the Metropolitan District Commission, which organizes the Head. According to MDC spokesperson Peter LaPorte "The Head has become more of a family event." We now return you to our regularly scheduled diatribe...
...fact, many nations would decide for themselves. Jordan even now says it will not interrupt delivery of food and medicine to Iraq or its import of Iraqi oil. China and Iran hint they are rethinking the question. Altogether, nine countries have indicated that they may seek exemptions from the embargo. From these early signals it is clear that starvation will not become a U.N. weapon. The U.S. does not want to starve Iraq either; its plan is to make Iraqis' diet so minimal that they will become resentful and discontented...
...point, neither is dramatically convincing. The febrile mind and bodily functions of the famous dead are not off limits to a novelist, especially one of Garcia Marquez's talents. Yet in this novel his fabulist's imagination is overburdened by research. Historical names, dates and events frequently interrupt the mood that has been so carefully prepared to characterize Bolivar's last ride. True, Garcia Marquez unhorses a legend distorted by politics and patinaed by sentimentality, but Bolivar did a pretty good job of it himself. Schoolchildren may know him as the George Washington of South America, but a great many...
...Bush go on the offensive, blaming / Democrats for the breakdown. But that plan was shelved as inappropriate after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Not until Budget Director Richard Darman and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were out of town three weeks ago did Sununu get his way. He persuaded the President to interrupt his vacation -- and his direction of the U.S. response to Saddam's aggression -- to blast the Democrats for the impasse. That awkwardly timed sally appeared to embarrass Bush. He concluded his finger-pointing speech by promising to become "more statesmanlike and try to resolve this national problem...
...factor. Contact sports may be inherently violent, but, notes Harvard's Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, "sports today is a phenomenon of excess, of ferocious aggression." Players are encouraged to bash opponents out of a game, by fair means or foul. Brawls and scuffles interrupt baseball and basketball games, and hockey melees have long been so common they are considered just a part of the show. Few athletic officials seem upset. Instead of quickly handing out fines and suspensions, too many coaches and managers engage in long-winded debates about whether offending players should...