Word: scream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expletives at his troops. On the bench, he's a no-nonsense high school principle, lecturing his players, lecturing the referees, stalking the sidelines with eagle eyes riveted on the court. In the press room he's James Earl Jones, pontificating, condescending, commanding respect. Roby is tough. He can scream and curse and berate officials, too. But would he call time-out with a 25-point lead to tell off his guards at mid-court? Doubtful...
Duke fans never hear Bobby Hurley scream the defense to his teammates. For those of you who decide to attend the Harvard-Dartmouth basketball game Saturday afternoon (and by the way, it's a huge one), you'll have no trouble hearing Crimson point guard Tarik Campbell say something to a teammate...
GAME theoreticians model situations such as the current standoff in the Gulf in the form of a game called "Chicken." Just as hot-rodding teenagers may scream their souped-up cars toward each other in an adolescent test of wills, each hoping that the other will swerve off the road, so can national leaders threaten each other with mutual destruction in order to persuade the adversary to give...
...would redraw the map of the world by force -- to rectify border disputes, reclaim "unredeemed" territory, seize a neighbor's natural resources. What lesson would these others draw from a failure to stop Saddam? Go ahead. The U.S. certainly will not stop you. Oh, it may shout and scream and bluster. But if it did not use force when a vital economic interest was threatened, when it had a clear moral justification and the support of a worldwide coalition, when would it? Letting Iraq's aggression stand is a recipe for a world of endless aggressions, of local...
...machine and/or his life. But that would require something like an ultimatum, backed by a genuine readiness to fight, and Saddam might not believe it even then. So the U.S. has to prepare for war. Anyone with a shred of human feeling can say that only with a suppressed scream of fear and pain. The U.S. confronts a bitter, tragic, even ghastly necessity. But, this time, it is a necessity that there is no honorable way to avoid...