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Decked out with a scowling Grinch tie and a pin with Santa hanging upside down from a chimney, author Tom Flynn enumerated the evils of Christmas for members of the Secular Society last night in the Owen Room in Winthrop House...
...subject matter of Enemy of the State is not complete nonsense, as the threat of constant surveillance is a fear in our modern world in the computer age. With a few PIN numbers and observational satellites, your life could be easily monitored and destroyed by a voyeuristic agency with the right technology and intelligence. The threat of terrorism increased by such atrocities as the Oklahoma City bombing has set some lawmakers into a fearful frenzy over preventive measures. And with cameras sitting on the top of traffic signals at intersections in England, can such surveillance techniques become policy...
...Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Like Gulf War I, Gulf War II would begin with a strategic air campaign that would target all the tools that help Saddam keep his grip on power--and Saddam as well. If he survived the aerial onslaught, the land campaign would try to pin him and his loyalists down in greater Baghdad. As the U.S. Army tightened its noose around Saddam, he'd be tempted to unleash whatever nuclear, chemical and biological weapons he has squirreled away. While the war raged, Iraqi skies also would be filled with U.S. broadcasts urging Iraqis to abandon...
Russia, France and China were emboldened by Saddam's letter to pressure the U.S. to put the safety pin back in the Tomahawks. "They are arguing to take yes for an answer, and we're saying it's a fraudulent yes," said an American official. While the Pentagon told its senior officers to show up "bright and early" Sunday morning to prepare for an air assault, Clinton, Albright and Berger were telephoning leaders around the world to bring them back on board. "We'll be prepared to act alone if we have to," said a White House aide...
...purpose, that purpose, when translated into modern standards, ranges from billboard images to the poor man's substitute painting. The prints were either displayed in local taverns, public notice-hanging walls or kept in a private collection. Among the assembled prints at the MFA, are both the first "pin-up girl" (a partially nude woman, her left breast exposed) and the first comic strip. Peddlers wandered, carrying mass copies of these various prints on their backs, selling them for pennies each...