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...Saddam. Bush announced that he had "had it" with Iraq's treatment of American diplomats in Kuwait, but later added, "I'm not trying to sound the tocsin of war." He also said that "we're prepared to give sanctions time to work" but that for Iraq the "sand is running through the glass." Which implication was authentic; which was for public relations consumption? And by whom...
...important for us to get our heads out of the sand and admit it," Ferrier said. "The fact is that violent crimes occur on campuses by and to students...
...Sand Trap. Troops have no opportunity for randy R. and R. in Saudi cities, but they have found another use for their prophylactics. Soldiers are placing condoms over the muzzles of their machine guns to protect them from airborne sand. In World War II, ground troops sometimes used "French letters" to keep their guns from jamming in the European damp...
...Build It, Bob Hope Will Come. For soldiers who want to putt away their boredom, the Pentagon is shipping out plywood and artificial turf to build miniature golf courses at Saudi bases. Watch out for the sand traps...
...tremors -- each as powerful, some say, as the earthquake that virtually destroyed San Francisco in 1906. The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...