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Unanswered questions about the Kennedy assassination have nagged the nation for nearly 28 years, rousing emotions, inciting speculation, provoking arguments. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would step into this minefield sooner or later -- and probably inevitable that the man leading the charge would be Oliver Stone, filmdom's most flamboyant interpreter of the 1960s (Platoon, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July...
...magazine is being advertised as a forum in which one may throw off one's chains and frolic unfettered through the minefield of Harvard's partisan publications to reach literary nirvana. Are there really chains on submissions to Harvard publications? It's not as if Lighthouse refuses to publish articles opposed to feminism or Diaspora publishes only articles written by African-Americans. Most publications at Harvard do have a theme, but then most pieces of writing have a theme. If the writing is just for the sake of writing, then submit to The Advocate...
People move more freely now, of course, but a favorite pastime, a walk on the beach, is impossible. The seaside fortifications built by the Iraqis -- four separate lines of trenches and obstacles -- "look like Normandy from the air," says a U.S. Army general. Mines are everywhere, and the minefield maps Baghdad provided the coalition are "useless," says U.S. Ambassador Edward Gnehm. The city is rocked by explosions several times a day as U.S. Army experts detonate Iraq's abandoned ordnance. Sporadic gunfire is heard throughout the day -- celebratory rounds discharged mainly by Saudi soldiers. (It is the Americans, however...
...thin smile, inflected his stats with Bob Hope-style throwaway lines ("But I gotta tell ya . . . "). When asked to appraise Saddam's soldiering skills, he snorted a "Ha!," then launched into a catalog of caustic irony. He tamped his rage into questions intimidating ("Have you ever been in a minefield?") and rhetorical ("Do I fear a cease-fire?"). But the most moving moment came when he caught himself describing the low allied casualty rate as "miraculous." Then his emotions briefly stumbled over his eloquence. "It will never be ra . . . miraculous to the families of those people," and here he drew...
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last August knocked this comfortable quietism sideways. Kohl and Kaifu struggled to live up to allied expectations, but each soon found himself in a political minefield. Kohl had to back off from a suggestion that German soldiers might legally go to the gulf. Kaifu proposed to dispatch troops to noncombat support roles well behind the lines; Japan erupted like a reactivated Mount Fuji...