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...clearly needs more practice in living. To make matters worse, his defense attorney (the excellent Rip Torn) is distracted and dispassionate -- he obviously thinks Daniel could use more time in the minors -- while his prosecutor (the equally fine Lee Grant) is ferociously well prepared. Both, as it turns out, reckon without the reformative powers of true love, and don't comprehend Daniel's capacity to die and learn...
...postwar calculation of power in the Middle East must now reckon with two contradictory axioms. One is that most countries in the area support some form of regional arms control. The other is that they all want billions of dollars' worth of additional weapons for themselves. Though the trauma of facing down Saddam's war machine made clear the folly of Western and Soviet arms sales to Iraq, it also left Arab nations and Israel no less apt to conclude that happiness -- or at least security -- is a warm...
...that. Western military men fear he has little idea of the fury and firepower of a high-tech attack. His mental picture of war, derived from the long struggle with Iran, is of trenches, minefields and barbed wire foiling human-wave assaults. Further, he might reckon that even if he lost, he would save his skin and some part of his military force; the anti- Saddam coalition is pledged only to push the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, not to drive on to Baghdad...
...there was a decade to reckon with. It had personality and definition; it made an impact. It was the decade of the Beatles and the Kennedys, Vietnam and Kent State, the Generation Gap and the Credibility Gap. Negroes became blacks, and black became beautiful; the campuses exploded; draft cards went up in smoke; and sexual taboos disintegrated. When the '60s ended (sometime early in the '70s), the world -- and we -- had changed...
...Inspired and encouraged by Mary Ann Graf and then Zelma Long at Sonoma's Simi Winery, a number of women have taken up the vinting craft, and are increasingly making their talents known. Kristin Belair, 31, a graduate of the University of California at Davis, is a newcomer to reckon with: the Wine Spectator rated her 1986 Johnson Turnbull Cabernet Sauvignon 13th on its recent list of 100 "Hottest Wines." "Winemaking is a nice mix of art and science," she says. "I really like blending and all the little decisions along the way. An amount as small...