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Saddam used the crisis with surprising skill to leap out of his isolation in the Arab world. Egypt and Qatar sent senior envoys to Baghdad to plead for peace, and Saddam boosted his standing with his gulf neighbors by seeming to choose diplomacy over adventurism. By letting in hordes of international journalists, he made sure they would show and tell the story of the Iraqi people suffering under U.N. sanctions...
Initiatives are brought by both liberal and conservative groups, and I am not advocating a position on any specific initiative in order to plead for the process: help save this important institution. This year, don't cheer the heavily financed and poorly conceived proposals as models for national reform; first they need to be responsible pieces of legislation and not just whim writ large. California voters should have enough sense to turn down these types of proposals for more serious methods to govern their state--the officials in Sacramento should be called upon to do more for their constituencies...
...juniors, most of us aren't particularly interested in inspiration anymore, let alone the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Instead of leading our parents into cavernous dining halls to show them where all our amazing conversations took place, we will plead with them to take us out to eat. Instead of attending faculty panels, we will ask them to take us out shopping, or to a movie or museum. Instead of showing them where our classes meet and where our friends live, we will sit down with them and tell them about the classes we love and the people we hate...
Starr was poised, meanwhile, to flank Clinton on other fronts. Last week his team persuaded former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker to plead guilty in Little Rock to fraud in exchange for helping Starr with his probe of Clinton's Whitewater finances. Clinton and Tucker, onetime rivals, met at the White House in late 1993, just days before both men were named by federal banking regulators in criminal referrals to the Justice Department. Starr would like to know what the two men talked about in that session; both have described it as routine...
...circumstances, by how well the two know each other, by how much they've had to drink, by just how much "fooling around" has already occurred. And for too many women, that translates into having the fun and excitement of mutual intimacy turn into the horror of having to plead to be treated as a human being, to plead to save their dignity and self-worth...