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...Yanks to the pennant. At the end of the season, on a 1-1 pitch against Washington's Tom Zachary, he set a home-run record that would stand for 34 years. BABE SMACKS SIXTIETH CIRCUIT SWAT, read one headline. The World Series against Pittsburgh would be a mere formality. Babe 4, Bucs...
...allied command, the hope remains that the mere demonstration of American air power will persuade large numbers of Saddam's best trained and most loyal soldiers, the Republican and Special Republican Guard, to surrender before the U.S. and British forces begin a siege of Baghdad. A senior Administration official told TIME that the military has "killed a significant number of the Republican Guard. We're trying to break their will and get them to go home." Defense officials predicted last week that up to a quarter of the Republican Guard troops would surrender if the details were worked out. "They...
...mere two years later, Saddam invaded oil-rich Kuwait as a quick way to finance the rebuilding of his war-shattered country. He subsequently misread almost every move the U.S. made in response, starting with his calculation that the first President Bush was not serious about kicking him out of Kuwait. Edhem Pasic, a Bosnian ambassador who befriended Saddam in 1979, went to Baghdad after the July 1990 invasion to persuade Saddam to withdraw. "I told him, 'Of all the reasons to leave Kuwait, maybe the most important reason for you is that the Western countries will destroy you,'" Pasic...
While I am glad that not all Americans are renouncing Brie and French fries, the mere suggestion that it would be patriotic to do so is enraging. A website like francestinks.com is infantile. The U.S. doesn't have the right to force its beliefs on others and condemn a country if it doesn't go along. I spent last summer with a French family whose members weren't arrogant, snooty or anti-American. Perhaps before spreading their blind hatred, the people who are boycotting French products should do a little more homework. AMY THORSTENSON Minneapolis, Minn...
...Terriers’ fifth goal came on the power play. McConnell won a draw in the Harvard zone back to defenseman Bryan Miller, whose slap shot made its way through traffic in front and passed unseen between Grumet-Morris’s legs. It came a mere eight seconds after the power play began and was to be followed in short order by another BU goal...