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...such precision highlights a problem: the effectiveness of those weapons is directly proportional to the quality of the intelligence used in selecting their targets. For many sites on the Pentagon's growing list of Iraqi targets, U.S. knowledge is scant. If war does come to Iraq soon, it is a good bet that lots of very expensive U.S. smart bombs are going to be blowing up lots of recently vacated Iraqi buildings...
...true." Zaks says he took on the daunting task because he was excited by the chance to "help something already on its way to being something, to become what it wants to be," and he says he's happy with the results after a scant three weeks. The show's producers, meanwhile, insist that all the negative publicity has been unfair. "Would I wish this kind of scrutiny and fishbowl on any artist?" asks producer Edgar Dobie...
...mass audience has paid scant attention to films about the Irish Troubles, but this one may find friends precisely because it renounces political nuance for emotional bullying and old Hollywood-style blarney. The movie's forebears are '30s Warner Bros. melodramas like Kid Galahad (a fighter and his trainer KO the crooks) and Angels with Dirty Faces (the Dead End Kids learn who's the real tough guy). The Boxer could even be a Going My Way without priests--it's that hokey...
...would clearly be happier just meditating finds himself turning to Democrats and Republicans, instructing 140,000 exiled Tibetans in the ways of the world, and winning all the admiration and attention he doesn't particularly need, while making scant headway in his cause. Last September some reporters openly criticized the (non-Tibetan) organizers of his trip to Australia because of their $20 T shirts and official sponsorship from Nike, Thai International Airlines and Ford. I must confess, though, that I know of this only because the Dalai Lama told me of it--and a caustic clipping about the "Dalai Lama...
...begin with unchallenged fact, the Harvard source for grapes for the winter will be in Chile, whose grapes were ranked the 11th most contaminated produce item on American shelves by the Environmental Working Group, basing its statistics on USDA tests. With scant regulation, there is no reason to think Chilean grapes will not continue to have undetected problems, like the cyanide scare that caused a brief governmental ban on Chilean grapes in the late 1980s...