Word: retreater
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Prowling around in a baggy blue boiler suit, Ann the chef looks more suited to Cultural Revolution-era China than a luxury retreat. But the only ideology to which she demonstrates allegiance is that she must do all she can to please guests at the Tanjong Jara beach resort. Many resorts rely on predictable hotel kitchens. Not this one. Often eschewing menus altogether, chef Ann herself comes to each dinner table and informs you what the kitchen has fresh that day. Maybe red snapper or barramundi. Perhaps green prawns, a range of vegetables, even locally reared venison. Once you select...
...wells on fire and lobbing missiles toward allied troops massing on the border. Though none hit their target, the Iraqi missiles were enough to unnerve many of the U.S. forces, which were gearing up to begin their invasion on Friday. With each missile alert, frontline soldiers were forced to retreat to their bunkers and don full-protection biochem suits, only to hear minutes later that the bombs had landed in the desert or the gulf. Even commanders in Kuwait held videoconferences with Franks while wearing their gas masks. The haphazard nature of Iraq's response convinced Pentagon officials that...
...Saddam, being something of a student of Stalin, may also be encouraged by the fact that although Russians loathed their dictator, they fought bravely to defend their country from invasion - even if sometimes it was the guns pointed at their backs, rather than patriotic heroism, that prevented retreat.) Saddam can't seriously hope to repel the invasion, but he may believe that by raising the human cost of capturing the city, and dragging out the battle over weeks, he can generate political pressure on President Bush at home and among Arab allies to force some form of cease-fire...
...want war, and while we're in that awful neighborhood of the Middle East, I want fundamentalist Islam to be crushed and oil profits confiscated as reparation for the Sept. 11 attacks and security costs. Then we Americans should retreat behind our borders absolutely. Those wishing to benefit from the Middle East are welcome to rebuild it themselves. ROBERT C. RHODES New York City...
...campaign to oust the regime may come within days, as coalition forces engage with key Republican Guard divisions deployed to make the battle for Baghdad as bloody as possible. Coalition forces will hope to draw them into a fight outside of the city and cut their lines of retreat back into the densely populated capital. But the streets of Baghdad are exactly where Saddam hopes to force the fight, knowing that a hand-to-hand battle for the capital could dramatically raise the human and political cost of a U.S. victory...