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...Saddam Hussein, Iran is giving him hope that should he outlast the U.N. coalition, he can still retain some of his military muscle. By helping out Saddam, Rafsanjani is assuaging the feelings of radical Islamic factions within Iran's parliament, who are unhappy to see Iran ignore the pummeling of fellow Muslims by Western forces...
...News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
...been working all season on conditioning," outside hitter Wanita Lopeter said. "We think we can outlast the other teams...
Harvard used finesse to outlast the Lions in the second game, exposing Columbia's suspect middle with a steady diet of dinks from Wallace and Wanita Lopeter, who turned in another strong performance. The Crimson strung together the game's final six straight points to cruise...
That is true up to a point. Saddam's hope, of course, is that he can outlast the embargo decreed by the United Nations and enforced by massed fleets. The odds have to be read against him because Iraq does not have large stockpiles of food, 75% of which it imports; its funds abroad are frozen; and he cannot export his oil. But with tight rationing and scrimping, and some leakage of supplies and spare parts, the country can probably squeak through from several months to a year or more of blockade without giving in to Western demands...