Word: revolutionize
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Much of the war against Saddam has faded to the level of indistinct chatter, where it is hard to sort signal from noise. The problem is bad on the military front, but it is even worse among the Iraqi insurgents, who have to be coached, caressed and cajoled by the...
Chalabi and the other exile leaders want arms and real military training from Washington now. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) and the other Kurdish faction in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P.), say they have 80,000 lightly armed fighters, while the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution...
Editors Philip Elmer-DeWitt and Charles P. Alexander, along with senior reporter Barbara Maddux, had a lot of fun matching writer and question. Jon Krakauer, best-selling author of Into Thin Air, handles "Will There Be Any Wilderness Left?" while Peter Benchley (of Jaws fame) addresses the consequences of overfishing...
Foreign Cultures 72, "Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika"
The roots of De la Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black...