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...today's leaders as appeasers of a dangerous tyrant. Hussein has violated United Nations resolutions and the cease-fire agreement of the Persian Gulf War. He has built weapons stockpiles and furnished his palaces while millions suffer from malnutrition brought on by economic sanctions. He has brutally crushed rebel movements and ethnic and religious dissidents...
Some advocates for air raids believe that bombing will worsen conditions in Iraq to the point that the Iraqi people will rebel. Statistics, however, show that the Iraqi situation could hardly get worse than it is now. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that sanctions have led to the deaths of more than 560,000 Iraqi children--a total greater than the death toll of Bosnian genocide. In a country of 20 million, 1 million have died since 1990. The truth of the matter is that suffering caused by bombing will only add to already overwhelming misery. Bombing Iraq...
Kenneth Starr may be the man who can overthrow Bill Clinton, but he is also proof positive that not every baby boomer started out as a little rebel. The son of a Church of Christ minister, the future independent counsel was raised not to drink or smoke. At George Washington University in the 1960s, when the academic dress code was being cracked at every turn, he would show up in class in a jacket and tie. And even as a teenager, when the freedom to be a slob is supposed to seem like one of life's essential liberties...
...could instill religious faith in me through the mechanical, dogmatic methods that were employed. I never really held a religious belief." Later on, he said, "I had other values: a political belief which I forged on my own, as a result of my experience, analysis and sentiments." Nevertheless, the rebel wore a small cross on his guerrilla garb in the early days of the revolution. In the book, he astonished Cubans with the extent of his religious knowledge and the flattering comparisons he drew between Christianity and Marxism. "Karl Marx," he said, "would have subscribed to the Sermon...
Every day in Charleston, S.C., the South rises again. Airport advertisements hawk local plantations preserved in antebellum splendor. The Old City Market sports Sambo lawn jockeys and fat black mammy dolls holding pigtailed blond babies. And a few blocks away, the Rebel flag blazes in a store window...