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...should not be the world's policeman." Perhaps not. But in this case that is an unfair charge. While American troops comprise a vast majority of the force in the Gulf, the United Nations has been abundantly clear in its support of the deployment of those troops, issuing a dozen separate resolutions calling for Saddam's withdrawal from Kuwait and authorizing the use of force...
...more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time they arrive, Kevin has decided that he is too old to be afraid, and he has loaded the house with enough booby traps to stop an army...
...rabbits. Gray then killed Holden and his elder daughter, 11, and torched the house. As terrified villagers tried to flee, Gray fired at them with five high-powered rifles kept in his kitchen, then began to stalk neighbors' homes. Among those killed was the first policeman to arrive at the scene...
...ongoing power struggle. "Sometimes an element of coercion is involved," notes Eaker-Weil. "It's nothing overt, more subtle. Usually the man instigates the filming, and the woman goes along. But she isn't comfortable." Laurie was badgered into making several sex tapes by her husband Tim, a retired policeman. He intimated he would have an affair if she did not agree. Then Tim insisted on filming a foursome with another couple whom he and Laurie had met in a bar. Angry and upset, Laurie now wants to destroy all the tapes, but Tim has hidden them...
...crushing burdens of superpower responsibility. The search has borne fruit. The newest panacea for getting us off the hook has been found: the U.N., multilateralism, collective security. Woodrow Wilson's great dream that the world would respond to aggression by acting collectively rather than having to rely on a policeman (i.e., us) is finally coming true...