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...morning on Sunday, March 3, in the shadow of Kuwait City's Maryam Mosque, a Kuwaiti resistance member who calls himself Mike leaned his French-made automatic rifle into the chest of his childhood friend Mustafa al- Kubaisi. He whispered, "This is your last night," and fired. Unsatisfied by the effect of the single shot, Mike used his 7.65-mm MAB pistol to put another round into Mustafa's head...
...younger Harvard players who were a part of that championship squad--including then-sophomores Peter Ciavaglia, Ted Donato and Mike Vukonich--have been living in the shadow of The Goal ever since. Last year, a disappointing sixth-place ECAC finish and a premature season finale at the hands of Cornell caused the Crimson to fall way short of its championship expectations...
...Soviet leadership virtually helpless when Iraq invaded Kuwait. "There was no able leader comparable to Bush around," says one of the President's advisers. "Gorbachev for all his peace efforts was a sideshow. Margaret Thatcher was gone." The widespread notion that Bush would forever remain in the charismatic shadow of Ronald Reagan or be viewed as a foreign policy amateur compared with Richard Nixon has evaporated. It will probably never rise again...
...Thatcher did not mince any words. No one should interfere with this objective, she declared. Saddam should not have even the shadow of a doubt that the world community would step back. It would achieve its objectives. No one should even try to ward off the blow against the Saddam regime...
...current presence in the Gulf is not unjustified -- there seems to be a legitimate U.S. national interest in the Middle East. But Bush's strategy -- casting a shadow of the true U.S. interest in the region and rallying pro-war fervor our of a jingoistic moral obligation to peace and democracy -- is not the way we should conduct foreign policy. Such a mentality would lead to a dangerously interventionist United States. That's not in anyone's interest -- not the world...