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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profoundly threatened," says one. Administration officials believe Saddam's political and military authority would be disrupted by sustained bombing--even though they acknowledge air power alone is unlikely to eliminate his capability to resume production of chemical and biological weapons. But if the U.N. monitors are unable to perform their mission, little is lost by resort to force, they argue. In the end, even the gulf states, though ambivalent about U.S. military action, are more concerned about their security than about the reaction on the Arab street. Their attitude has helped convince Washington policymakers that failure to respond to Saddam...
Kaplan recalls strolling down to the Eliot House common room to watch Yo-Yo Ma '76 perform, and great films like The Godfather and Taxi Driver showing in the Square...
Using her acting and impersonation talents to perform snapshots of the American character, Anna Deveare Smith educated and amused audience members last night in the Askwith Lecture Hall at Radcliffe College...
...spent much of his career on the verge, never quite making it into the big time. Case in point: In 1956, with his first big hit "Blue Suede Shoes" No. 2 on the singles charts, Perkins broke his collarbone in a car accident while on his way to perform on "The Perry Como Show." Still, "Shoes" sold more than a million copies even before Elvis released his version. For Perkins, that was the top, as he spent the next four decades in and out of vogue, playing with first his brothers and then his sons, influencing generations of guitarists like...
Speaking animatedly and pacing in the front of the room, Synnott eschewed the political science rhetoric of community policing and talked tough and simple, at times imploring the crowd to help police officers perform their jobs effectively...