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...Since inspections broke off in 1998, Saddam is widely believed to have retooled and restocked chemical and biological agents and brought his nuclear program back into high gear, while vastly improving his capacity to hide it all. His history of deception and game playing makes a fresh attempt to root out the arsenal in this way difficult. Saddam, says former inspector David Kay, "will always defeat a U.N.-type of inspection made up of 100 to 300 people in a country as large as Iraq...
...Qaeda members, are unemployed underachievers whose loyalty to their country is ambiguous at best, given their religious extremism. Like these disaffected alleged terrorists, many people who live in the Arab world have been on the unemployment line for years. Arab jealousy of Western success and power is the root of the recent terrorism. RICHARD L. JOHNSON College Station, Texas...
...will not reduce binge drinking because it does not address the root of the problem. It does not change the social mindset that leads students to drink heavily, nor does it teach students to drink responsibly. Students will drink—and possibly get drunk—if they want to, and the best thing the university can do is to minimize the dangers. If the administration wants to address the real problem of binge-drinking, they would be wise to implement programs that will make a difference. Instead of placing a ban on kegs, we encourage the implementation...
...communion of author, character and reader is usually lost in translation. But Thomas Harris' Lecter stories have been blessed with caring midwives: four films and not a lemon among them. The trick, which Red Dragon pulls off in smart fashion, is to take sensation seriously, to find its root in loneliness and love...
...uncomfortable with the notion that he's had to move Blair-ward to make himself electable. But even though Lula's high school education doesn't match the Ph.D. milieu of Cardoso and the ruling party's smug technocrats, he seems to be aware enough of one of the root causes of Brazil's (and Latin America's) new economic crisis. The free-market reforms relied too addictively on foreign capital, which in turn kept local interest rates inordinately high - and eventually snuffed out the very economic growth that the capitalist sales pitch had so loudly promised, not to mention...