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Just across the border to the south, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was reported to be rushing reinforcements for yet another possible bloody crackdown on his country's nearly 4 million Kurds. Iraqi Kurds are worried that Saddam may be planning to mount a full-scale offensive to regain his control over their territories, which he lost after the gulf...
...really wanted to do a positive thing for Asian Americans, they shouldn't mount a fashion show where the majority of the Asians in the audience will never fit into the clothes being modeled...
...endorsed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health, that claim people can get every nutrient they need from the food they eat. Popping vitamins "doesn't do you any good," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert, a professor of medicine at New York City's Mount Sinai medical school. "We get all the vitamins we need in our diets. Taking supplements just gives you expensive urine...
...frenzy is neither an insurgent Democrat like Brown nor a Republican conservative like the fast-fading Pat Buchanan. That honor belongs instead to billionaire Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, who positions himself as a modern-day Cincinnatus called from the boardroom by the little people clamoring for him to mount an independent campaign for the White House. In what may be the cleverest antipolitics fandango in an antipolitics year, Perot insists, "I have no desire to be President. My personal feelings are, anybody intelligent enough to be able to do the job would not want the toughest, dirtiest, most thankless...
...February/March issue, the Beuys and Warhol show is part of a recent trend to make art exhibitions more than mere retrospectives on an artist's or group of artists' work. As Art New England writer Patricia Hills puts it, "[museum] curators have become more assertive and have elected to mount theme shows in which they can advance their own ideas about art and culture...