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...make the case at the U.N. in September, challenging the Security Council to enforce its resolutions on Iraqi disarmament. But Cheney pushed back. Without informing Powell, he decided that his speech to the V.F.W. convention in Nashville would set out the hard-line case against Saddam--including Cheney's judgment that the return of inspectors would be a "false comfort" and provide "no assurance whatsoever" of Iraq's compliance with U.N. resolutions. He spoke openly of what the U.S. would do after a regime change in Iraq--implying that it was prepared to go to war to get Saddam...
...Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 27, 1991, they agreed that their military and political objectives in the Persian Gulf had been met. Saddam's forces, which had invaded Kuwait seven months before, had been routed. General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander in chief of Operation Desert Storm, concurred in the judgment. Bush had a clear goal for the war: it was not to topple Saddam, much less to march on Baghdad, but to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. The President had assembled a grand coalition, including armies from many Arab states, behind that aim, and he was not inclined...
...perfect world, contraception would be 100 percent effective, no one would have sex until they were ready and every child conceived would be wanted. But in our world, method failure, bad judgment and rape are ever-present realities. We can spend our time lamenting their existence, and pretending they don’t affect us. Or we can face reality and do everything in our power to make terrible situations just a little less terrible. Emergency Contraception (EC) does not make the issue go away, but it does provide women a safe and effective option for preventing unwanted pregnancies...
Rohan Gunaratna, author of an admired study of al-Qaeda, goes further. Mohammed's arrest, he thinks, has "cut al-Qaeda's operational ability by 50% at least in the next one to two years." Gunaratna's judgment is based on Mohammed's experience and his ruthlessness. Mohammed has been involved in international terrorism at least since 1995, when he and his nephew Ramzi Yousef--who organized the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center--planned to blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific. Mohammed, says Gunaratna, "always thought big. His capacity to conceptualize, plan and implement low-cost...
...semester beforehand. This is another area where first-years are hit especially hard, since they need advising the most and their advisers will have no grade reports to assess their progress by the time they sign up for classes in November. The adviser will have to make a judgment as to whether a student should start organic chemistry in the spring semester without knowing whether the student sailed through Chemistry 15 in the fall or failed the class. While advisers will have access to upperclass transcripts, without shopping period, their students will be more reliant than ever on the embattled...