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...main safeguards will have to be local. To secure Kuwait, Washington's preliminary idea is to establish, at least temporarily, a demilitarized zone on the Iraq-Kuwait border. Arab forces, mainly Egyptian and Syrian, would police Kuwait's side, and U.N. peacekeeping troops would monitor the DMZ. One kink is that the border remains disputed, and an indignant Kuwait refuses to negotiate the matter with Iraq...
...Afrikaner, one of the great comforts of apartheid was that it left no room for doubt. Everything was accounted for in an elaborate system that measured a man's race by the kink of his hair and plotted the future as a cluster of indentured black homelands surrounding a wealthy white state. But those certainties are beginning to feel like relics of an embarrassing past. The future is now clouded, and Afrikaners are uneasy. For them, the architect of what lies ahead is not the revolutionary Nelson Mandela but a quiet, cautious lawyer who seems to demonstrate more loyalty...
...UConn students are asked at the end of each semester to fill out a form evaluating the performance of their professor. However, up until last year, no one had ever asked to see these results which were used in various administrative decisions," said Matthew Kink, a student who serves on the University Senate. A 1977 ruling of the FOI had stated that the evaluations were private documents...
...from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...
...part she has played in opening the world's stages to younger black singers like Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. "I am here, and you will know that I am the best and will hear me," says Price, summarizing her philosophy. "The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to." She took particular satisfaction from singing with Bass Simon Estes in her farewell Aida: "It makes me feel just wonderful to have this black god standing behind...