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...felt the fear of the Gulf War in 1991. It was awful. In such a war, when you feel like a hunted rat, never being able to fight back, there are no heroes, no matter what they tell you afterward. Should a new war break out, Saddam's remnant Scuds will certainly fly again toward Israel. And this time they will carry bioweapons. Saddam and his fellow dictators don't deserve pity. There is much truth in the saying that every nation gets the government it deserves. The poor Iraqi people should have turned Saddam out long ago. Usually...
...donor country--but aside from the yellow food packets dropped by allied warplanes during the war, ordinary Afghans have seen few tangible signs of the anticipated U.S. assistance. Because the Pentagon wants to maintain the combat readiness of American forces in order to launch search-and-destroy missions against remnant enemy targets, U.S. soldiers don't mix much with the civilian population. The U.S. has devoted just $16 million over two years to civilian projects such as school reconstruction and well digging, and most American troops are instructed to stay at the large U.S. bases rather than venture into Afghan...
...back into its holster, yanked me out of the dirt, and then, in a moment of sublime surrealism, looked across to the bay, and said: "Beautiful, no?" Though sweat?or perhaps tears?stung my eyes and clouded my vision, I nodded in agreement. A crumbling Portuguese fort?a remnant from the 400 years Timor spent under Lisbon's rule?presided over a perfect, white sand beach, complete with palms leaning lazily toward the clear waters. In another time, the scene could have been described as idyllic. But at that moment, East Timor's potential as a holidaymaker's paradise seemed...
...frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable--but not lavish--quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck--a vestigial remnant of Catholicism--and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash. When he is not working, Springsteen takes life easy and does not worry about it. "I'm not a planning-type guy," he says. "You can't count...
...have an escape route, they will bluff charge, veering away hard at the last yard, the last foot, the last inch. I don't know why they are so much more frightening in my dreams: possibly some cellular residue of caveman days. The West in many ways is a remnant of that imagination, as witnessed by the sadness of such titles as the Grizzly Drive-In, the Grizzly Auto Ranch, the University of Montana Grizzlies, Lady Griz volleyball...