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Terror is back in style in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Gone are those brief days after the war when, with Saddam looking totally vulnerable, open dissent as well as outright rebellion flared. With the unrest now almost fully suppressed, dreams of a new regime in Iraq have given way to the old hopelessness and fear. Saddam promises democracy and greater freedom of expression, but the Iraqi people expect only despotism. Asked about anti- Saddam demonstrations in March, a Baghdad taxi driver replies, "You cannot ask such questions in this country. If I talk to you, the police will come...
...management. High-level defectors claim that Travolta has long feared that if he defected, details of his sexual life would be made public. "He felt pretty intimidated about this getting out and told me so," recalls William Franks, the church's former chairman of the board. "There were no outright threats made, but it was implicit. If you leave, they immediately start digging up everything." Franks was driven out in 1981 after attempting to reform the church...
...based church is the notorious, self- regulated stock exchange in Vancouver, British Columbia, often called the scam capital of the world. The exchange's 2,300 penny-stock listings account for $4 billion in annual trading. Local journalists and insiders claim the vast majority range from total washouts to outright frauds...
...over Dartmouth this Tuesday will give the Crimson the Ivy league title outright. The game against Cornell, however, was the last major obstacle preventing the Crimson from repeating as Ivy champs. Alhough Harvard did not get out of the blocks quickly, their overall superior play enabled them to overcome a Cornell team who held hopes of obtaining some share of the title...
...call upon all of us to strive for a more meaningful ethic of sexual behavior--one that repudiates sexual self-gratification at the expense of another, whether that gratification is achieved by aggressive persuasion, bullying, coercion, or outright force...