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...sticking single-mindedly to the warpath, the Bush Administration hopes to scare Saddam into accepting its terms for Iraq's capitulation. But the White House knows that Saddam gets much of his news from CNN. He hears the loud and cacophonous tones of dissension emanating from Congress, and they tell him that the American will to fight for the sake of Kuwait is less firm than the Administration wants him to think. Baker acknowledged that point last week, admonishing the House Foreign Relations Committee, "When you say, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait,' that undercuts a strategy that is showing every possibility...
...purchase is a way of ensuring an immensely valuable supply of so-called software: the movies, records and films that can be played on the machines Matsushita sells. Says Donald Richie, a leading arts critic and longtime resident of Japan: "There's no reason for a Yellow Peril scare. The Japanese just want to milk the cows and pull in the profits that they know these studios create." Matsushita hopes to put half a century's worth of MCA creative output into new CDs, videotapes, laser discs and other formats. Besides producing movies and TV shows, MCA makes records...
Because their disease is more acute, Type I diabetics have been particularly motivated to adopt strict treatment regimens. "The long-term complications of this disease scare the hell out of me," declares Ken McDonald, a 45-year-old computer engineer from Wellesley, Mass. Instead of sticking with the traditional treatment of two insulin shots a day, he began what is called "intensive therapy" four years ago. In that approach, he receives insulin more or less continuously, as needed. Around his waist McDonald wears an insulin pump the size of a pager, which infuses the hormone through a slender needle positioned...
Everyone still hopes no one has to go to war against Iraq. But the only chance of avoiding it -- perhaps -- is to scare Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. The only way to do that is to threaten war louder than ever and mean it -- and get into position to fight, not just defensively if Saddam is mad enough to start anything further, but offensively if need be to force him out. That was the essential meaning of President Bush's high-volume announcement last week that the U.S. is sending new forces to the gulf, perhaps...
...complex. Especially when dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible threat of waging it, and the only way to make such a threat credible is by really meaning...