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...Saturday morning to know any better. Because they are blackout when they would normally be sleeping through breakfast.But as Aidan, a junior, notes scornfully, fans in her native Oklahoma “actually use their tickets to go to the game. They don’t just drink to oblivion and ask, ‘Who won?’”Of course, one might argue The Game is worth one’s attendance just to see Harvard Stadium, a National Historic Landmark for which football itself has changed. The forward pass, the stuff of decades...
...Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb has got to be kidding [Oct. 23]. Can the terrorists in Iraq be deterred by mutual assured destruction, as the Russians were? Can we defense-spend them into oblivion? If we cut and run in Iraq, it will be annexed by Iran, a larger share of the world's oil will be used as a weapon against the U.S., a Shi'ite majority will have free rein to commit genocide against Sunnis and Kurds, and the Shi'ites will have more money to buy arms for Hizballah. Jose Ramirez Lindenhurst, New York...
Gelb has got to be kidding. Can the terrorists in Iraq be deterred by mutual assured destruction, as the Russians were? Can we defense-spend them into oblivion? If we cut and run in Iraq, it will be annexed by Iran, a larger share of the world's oil will be used as a weapon against the U.S., a Shi'ite majority will have free rein to commit genocide against the Sunnis and Kurds, and the Shi'ites will have more money to buy arms for Hizballah...
...treasured clarinets, including one depicted in a large painting on the Superdome walls, and evacuated. Like Butler and so many others, when he returned he found his home had stood under nine feet of water for three weeks, and its contents churned and whirled into oblivion...
...overwhelming firepower, Israel will eventually pry the Hizballah militants off the Lebanese border. The problem is it could take weeks, or longer. In recent days, a note of caution has crept into the soundbites of various Israeli military officers. Gone are the boasts that Hizballah will be hammered into oblivion. Instead, they're urging diplomacy and calling for the presence of a robust international peace-keeping force along the border to halt Hizballah's rocketmen. Meanwhile, as casualties rise, many of Israel' s formidable chariots of war are being pressed into ambulance service...