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...southern area of Iraq breaks away, Shi'ite Iran might gobble it up and move on to Saudi Arabia's eastern province, also Shi'ite and home to the kingdom's most important oil fields. At the same time, Iran would be deeply worried if the northern segment of Iraq were to break away and create an independent Kurdistan. Turkey and Syria share that worry. So while the surrounding states would like to see Saddam disarmed, they are less than certain they want his regime to collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crises: Selling The War Badly | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...black middle class must still struggle against a popular culture sickeningly distorted by rumors of black inferiority. Clear proof of this comes in the remarkable sales and on-going national public discussion of Richard Herrnstein's and Charles Murray's racist tract The Bell Curve. Is there any other segment of the "middle class" that must endure serious public debate of whether they are genetically less intelligent...

Author: By Lawrence D. Bobo, | Title: Speaking Truth to Power on the Subject of Race | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...student organizations, or from people I hadn't talked to in months forwarding me lists of the top 10 Mensa pick-up lines. Damn it, I felt loved. But alas, all that has changed. Now, a giant sucking sound is apparently echoing across Harvard's servers as a growing segment of the e-mailing population gradually logs out. The ominous silence they leave in their wake can be explained in three letters...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: God and the CS Student | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...After Tuesday night's Karla Faye weeper, "Nightline" was back to nuts and bolts with explainers on two enemies Clinton can't do without: the rabid right and the ravenous press. The press segment was better, a cameraman's-eye view of a grand jury stakeout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Word | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...Hind urged R.J.R., maker of Camel, Winston and Salem, to "increase its share penetration among the 14-24 age group." One year later, a 10-year planning forecast prepared for the board of directors and stamped RJR SECRET noted that 14-to-18-year-olds were "an increasing segment of the smoking population" and proposed a brand aimed at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoke Gets In Your Aye | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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