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...presence there. Sending yet more troops to Iraq--if there were more troops to send--would only make things worse. We are seeing in retrospect that Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, crippled and contained in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, was perhaps the best of many bad scenarios. As for the future, we can pull out American troops and watch things disintegrate, or we can keep our forces in Iraq and watch things disintegrate. The only benefit to the first scenario is that Americans won't be the ones getting killed. ALLEN B. URY Costa Mesa, Calif...
...Governor Zhang spoke into a microphone. "When we received the report on the 18th, we immediately took measures," he said. "We had to plan for the worst-case scenario, not the best. If we didn't turn off the water, the masses might drink it. Who would want to shoulder that responsibility...
...billion short, according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. GM says its pension obligations are more than fully funded and it has no intention of terminating its plan. But GM may have to shoulder some of Delphi's liabilities--GM spun off Delphi in 1999. In a worst-case scenario, by GM's estimate, the tab for Delphi's 34,000 workers could hit an additional $11 billion. Without unloading its pension obligations, analysts say, GM must find a way to sell more vehicles at higher prices...
...Just Not That Into You. And the best-selling book of this title offers you an appropriately simplistic dictum. Basically, authors Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo say, if a guy really likes you, he won’t let anything get in his way. Scoffing at the classic scenario of overeager single women (you really like this guy, he gives you mixed signals, you make excuses for him), Behrendt and Tuccillo advise women to stop kidding themselves, let go, and look for someone who will be “into...
...respond to the avian flu virus that has killed 65 people in Asia. The fear, of course, is that the H5N1 virus will kill millions more if it mutates into a form that can be transmitted from human to human-the WHO conservatively estimates that in this worst-case scenario, the virus will infect between one quarter and one third of the world's population, and kill between 2 million and 7.4 million people. And yet, the three-day conference ended on a remarkably optimistic note...