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...said, as if he actually enjoyed the prospect of a confrontation with France, Russia and the others. The tactic was unexpected; the belligerence, revealing. The President is ticked off, but he is confident, and he is calling France's bluff. Win or lose in the Security Council, he will prove America's power or the U.N.'s irrelevance...
...will to resist and quickly end Saddam's rule with little destruction to the country's infrastructure. Some officers have even grumbled that the war plan places too many transportation and power grids off limits as a sop to postwar needs. But if hostilities drag on, rebuilding Iraq could prove as costly and complicated as the four-year reconstruction of Hitler's Germany...
...desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move his family?his patient wife, Goma, and their two children?from their cramped apartment into a house of their own. This, Ramchandra repeats to himself, will prove his worth to his disdainful but wealthy in-laws, who see him as "a man who was worthless unless he continually moved toward better jobs and bigger houses." He has a mind that clinks like a cash register, cursing every lost rupee. It's through his tutoring that Ramchandra meets...
Peter eventually achieves self-acceptance when he ventures into a dangerous situation disguised as a “brother” in one last, desperate and side-splitting attempt to prove Charlene’s innocence...
...EIWA, the Harvard senior has only won one of four matches against other conference-ranked opponents. The weight class features two national contenders in Lehigh’s No. 7 Brad Dillon and Penn’s No. 20 Matt Herrington. O’Donnell has a lot to prove to the coaches this year and will need a finish similar to last year’s to move on to the next round of competition...