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...fencing, a team is broken down into three squads: epee, foil and saber. Brandeis was much more experienced with three returning members on the foil squad and two members returning on the epee squad. In total, over half its team consisted of returning fencers...
...Israel, it now burdens the peace. Hard-line rejectionists want Arafat's head, literally. Prime Minister Rabin has come to understand that Arafat is as constrained by internal Palestinian politics as he is by Israel's. Washington will have to remind Rabin of that reality if Arafat rattles his saber to protect his flanks -- and perhaps act as a court of appeal when disputes arise...
Clinton Rattles a Saber...
...experience resonates to the most ancient layers of our brains, it's probably because we spent our first million years or so not just hunting and gathering, but being hunted and gathered. T. Rex had been gone for 60 million years when our progenitors came along, but there were saber-toothed tigers, lions, cougars, leopards, bears, wolves and wild boars waiting at the edge of every human settlement and campground...
Military defiance of the executive branch has been the hallmark of revolutions and coups in Haiti, the Philippines, and Liberia. If you think the U.S. shouldn't take on any characteristics of these countries, then you realize that this sort of saber-rattling is unhealthy. It doesn't reflect well on President Clinton's real power, either. What does he need to do besides making an executive order...