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...With Saddam's Consent The grim scenes of kidnapping and violence in Iraq [IRAQ, April 19] are a depressing contrast to the rapid rout of Saddam Hussein's troops after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the Gulf War of 1991. Not long after the end of that conflict, however, Saddam was already reasserting his power, as we noted in a March 29, 1993, article. This piece also revealed his barbaric wartime behavior, as detailed in a U.S. government report...
With an NCAA tournament berth and a share of the Ivy title already secured thanks to a win over Yale last Sunday, the Crimson emphatically closed out its league schedule with a 7-0 rout of Dartmouth yesterday afternoon in Hanover...
...could hear the gears grinding," he scoffed, to discomfort from the Labour benches and guffaws from his own. But for Blair, Britain and the E.U., the referendum is no joke. By championing a cause many in his own party consider unwinnable, Blair is risking his premiership - a humiliating rout could drive him from office. His about-face not only raises the prospect that one of the E.U.'s major countries will veto a treaty that requires approval by all 25 members, but creates awkward problems for the governments that figured they could get by without votes of their own. French...
...year, much higher than the anticipated 8.2% E.U. average and more than double Britain's 4.8% level. But despite the drag of 2.5 million jobless adults on the economy, neither the private nor the public sector seems capable of doing anything about it. Last month's spectacular rout of conservative politicians in regional polls was widely interpreted as an expression of anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform policies, which some see as downright counterproductive. "We'd all rather be working than scrambling to find a job," comments Jean-Michel Florand, one of the victorious Marseilles plaintiffs...
Farkes and Mann hit home runs and sophomore designated hitter Frank Herrmann added three RBI in the rout. After Farkes’s two-run shot—his league-leading seventh of the season—staked Morgalis to a 4-1 lead in the third inning, the game never really was close...