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Whether the latest round of confrontation is really over depends on the whims of Iraq's unfathomable ruler. "If he continues to flex his muscles," says Pollard, "we have to deploy our forces to keep the peace and protect U.S. interests." But with most American officials increasingly confident that the U.S. has squelched Iraq's military adventuring for the moment, the next real concern is how much political and diplomatic damage has been done...
...GOLDEN RULER J. PATRICK ROONEY...
...laden with soft drinks and those butter cookies the White House kitchen does so well-- that we might implore the all-knowing seer Dick Morris to divine for us what sacrifice--of cattle, oxen or welfare babies-- Might best propitiate the god of polls and focus groups, lighthearted Hermes, ruler of nations...
...name means "bringer of beauty," although he was officially known as the Master of All Justice and Ruler of the Lower and Upper Nile. He was worshipped as a god during his lifetime, some 4,600 years ago, from the Nile Valley to the Sinai. He designed and built the first true pyramids and founded a dynasty--Egypt's 4th--that lasted more than 100 years...
When one-year-old Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with...