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It was yet another pathetic display of Congressional abdication of Constitutional war powers. Not until two weeks before the January 15 deadline for Saddam Hussein to withdraw his forces from Kuwait did Congress really debate the direction that U.S. policy should take in the region. And by then, it was...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: War Powerless | 4/10/1991 | See Source »

The prisoners, all reservists, said they had eaten only rice and bread containing sawdust for months. They also claimed they were terrorized by the Kwat al-Khasa, the Iraqi special forces, who threatened to kill them if they tried to desert. How could these pathetic men explain the atrocities committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Free at Last! Free at Last! | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

Jennifer Jason Leigh shines, but in a different equation: she has been terrific in a dozen films almost nobody has seen. Her only hit was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and that was a decade ago. Her main roles are as dimwit sluts and babes in bondage. But the daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

EVERY YEAR on February 14, undersexed Crimson writers release their frustrations through rambling, sniveling, pathetic diatribes on the abysmal state of their love lives, thinly disguised as indignant double-pronged attacks on the unfeeling cruelties of the Harvard dating scene and the institutional evils of Valentine's Day.

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Two Sides of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

Even the minor characters, from Gravely's secretary to the field's chief groundskeeper, are dissatisfied with life. The secretary cheats on her husband with Gravely, and the groundskeeper is an alcoholic. The townspeople who harass Gravely must have pathetic lives or they would not be calling the coach in...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Distinctly Southern Melancholy | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

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