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Tarkanian's continuing presence in the tourney is testimony to his clout as major-college basketball's winningest coach, despite the fact that he is also one of the sport's most controversial figures. The chief reason why he continues to appear in the NCAA knockout event is also the focus of much of the controversy: his 30-year-old coaching system, built on finding and nurturing players that other schools have passed up. This year eight of 14 UNLV players, including All-American forward Larry Johnson, came to UNLV from junior colleges or as transfers. Once on the Rebels...
...attempts to simply speak with one another -- all had been pointed up as potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint forces, the doctrine managed surprisingly well to integrate the polyglot gulf alliance...
...armed and dangerous, but her knockout potential is also aesthetic. Meet . the gulf war's first pinup girl: Jackie Guibord, 28, a statuesque mother of two who wields a shotgun and sports a trim pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to Betty Grable is actually a Provo, Utah, police officer who moonlights as a model. Her unofficial fan club began when a few Utah reservists took copies of the ad to the gulf. Before long other servicemen started tearing the photo out of magazines and pinning it up in tents, bunkers and just...
...coalition partners are also worried that a lethal knockout punch to Saddam would turn him into an even greater hero on the Arab street than he already is. And though the allies view their campaign in the gulf as just, there are moral limits to the conduct of war, even when confronting an opponent who behaves as despicably as Saddam. "Military professionals have a very strong sense of what distinguishes the work they do from butchering," says Michael Walzer, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. "It is a moral sense, even though...
When asked to predict the outcome of a war against Iraq, senior officers invariably quote Clausewitz's warning about the "fog of war" -- the uncertainties that inevitably crop up in combat. Even so, it seems possible, perhaps even likely, that the U.S.-led alliance could score a reasonably quick knockout. The awesome arsenal that the coalition has assembled in the gulf provides it with overwhelming military advantages. "I look at the scenarios," says an Army colonel, "and I just don't see where Saddam's army is going to hide...