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...They’re going to make us run the football, which we’re pretty comfortable doing, and they’re going to make us be patient with the pass,” Rose said...
...assumption that Saddam won't roll over, it may be months before Iraq is declared in breach of its obligations, hence opening the way for war. "The timeline," says a senior British official, "is significantly longer than most people think." President Bush is not normally thought of as a patient man. But his dad was (it was nearly six months from the invasion of Kuwait to the start of the Gulf War). Who knows? Maybe patience will turn out to be a Bush family trait too. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, John F. Dickerson/Washington, and J.F.O. McAllister/London, Scott...
...with a loose chain of tanks and armored vehicles. This porous ring would allow civilians to flee the city center, where Saddam's soldiers--and perhaps the Iraqi leader himself--would be holed up, anxiously waiting for a "mother of all battles" that would never materialize. "You can be patient, with a minimum loss of life," says Scales, "or you can rush in and kill a lot of people on both sides...
What makes the proposed diagnosis controversial, aside from the possibility that it could be applied to every living American, is the question of how the "patient" will be defined. A relationship can't make an appointment. Only the individuals in it can. But if only one of them shows up at the clinic, how do you effectively treat the relationship? And if they both come, what if only one feels poorly? For First and his like-minded colleagues, these are sticky issues but solvable ones. They point out that psychiatry deals every day with similar dilemmas and ambiguities...
While the interest groups jockey, access to the courts is less urgent for most people than access to a doctor. After calling every day for weeks, Elizabeth Gromny finally persuaded her obstetrician to handle her delivery, but only because another patient in military service had been transferred out of state. But complications have forced Gromny to visit specialists, and many specialists have also posted signs in their offices warning that the insurance crisis might force them to close their doors. "I'm constantly worried about what could happen," says Gromny. "When you're pregnant, the last thing you want...