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...have appealed to their mother to intervene with Saddam. Another reason for the party's return: the refusal of other expatriate dissidents to embrace General Kamel as their leader left him isolated and unhappy, says MacLeod. "Also, after warmly welcoming Kamel to Jordan and ensconcing his family in a lavish royal palace, King Hussein gradually distanced himself from the Iraqi defector...
...stage's curtain provided my first impression of the show: lavish, but schlocky. Here was a beautifully rendered map of East Africa, emblazoned with the show's title--and a bevy of advertisements. Not too attractive, and unfortunately I had to stare at it during the whole overture...
...frugal customer will choose the $10 handcuffs, which are merely for decorative purposes, Lee says. The lavish shopper can spend $24 for "the Real McCoy...
...Pont (so called because few people could pronounce Eleuthere) is well known in U.S. wrestling circles as one of the sport's most generous backers-he has donated more than $3 million to the U.S. Olympic wrestling team. But he is also known as a controversial figure whose lavish treatment of athletes sometimes mocked the values of amateur sports, and whose volatile personal behavior had caused more than one person to leave the Foxcatcher club. In August 1988, a problem-plagued wrestling program he funded at Villanova was shut down after just two years. In December 1988, a lawsuit (which...
...could turn against them. The debate would no longer be about who had a serious plan but about who had a better one. Polls continued to show that a large majority of voters hated the G.O.P. Medicare proposals and thought they were designed mainly to make room for lavish tax cuts for rich Republican allies. This put Clinton in a neat position. If Gingrich and Senate majority leader Robert Dole accepted his terms, he could take credit for balancing the budget without shredding the safety net. If they rejected it, he could campaign for the rest of the year against...