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...their defensive oil-filled trenches. Kinsley writes: "On February 23, the day the ground war started, The Washington Post reported about this weapon that at first we didn't have, then would never use except against a chemical attack, then were using to clear mine fields and pack down sand: 'All of the front-line Iraqi troops have been subjected to extensive bombardment, including many detonations of BLU-82 bombs, containing fuel-air explosives.'" It was firestorms all over again. "But by then, who cared...
...going to be hard to know how schools are going to react. We certainly can't bury our heads in the sand," said Miller. "On the other hand, we feel need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid is the best way to build a quality student body...
...businesses -- they lost millions. After six months in a barracks at the Santa Anita Racetrack, we were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyo. We arrived in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, five of us children in our California clothes. When we got to our tar-paper barracks, we found sand coming in through the walls, around the windows, up through the floor...
What this city needs to move forward constructively and to get beyond the hollow sloganeering of the 1991 city election is a politics of inclusion grounded on facts. Comments which foment divisiveness between age and ethnic groups help no one and act like sand in the gears of our city's political process. William S. Noble
Stand in the Lake Perris foothills and look north to the hard browns and purples of the Badland hills and the San Gorgonios Mountains: between the lake and the peaks, Moreno Valley sprawls across the desert floor. While dust devils dance on the shimmering sand, summer heat relentlessly fills all spaces. This is pioneer and pathfinder country, a desert that developers turned into the mother of all real estate opportunities by diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Oroville reservoir, far to the north. This is a place for hardworking parents, with wagon-train hearts, seeking picket...