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...Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...
...troubles. In Warsaw, particularly on Krochmalna Street, he quickly encounters a number of women as eager to use him as he is them, with generally unhappy results. There is, as Singer warns, little of God's wisdom and mercy in this book, but the display of human perversity and sheer cussedness is enthralling...
...reckoning, the King should step down. His decision to back Saddam's fatal plunge into Kuwait was catastrophic. If the King looked at his situation clearly and not defensively, he would see that backing Saddam was sheer folly. Jordan, bereft of financial support, is depressed and dangerously unstable. Gross national product is down 50%. The population of 3 million -- 60% Palestinian -- teems with bitter, unemployed citizens and dispossessed gulf refugees. Anti-American chants in the streets of Amman will soon turn into cries for revenge. But abdication and exile are not the King's only means of escape...
...sheer number of these organization couples suggests that the big rarity around campus is the "regular couple," or the couple who met at a party or in a section. Scott A. Berney '91 met his love on the band bus to Washington, D.C. He played the drums, she played the flute. And ever since that trip at the end of their first year, he and Amy E. Mainville '91 have been a couplet...
Despite all the wrong places, however, those who search will find an Arkansas they will never forget. The sheer beauty of "The Natural State" (as it was recently renamed by the state legislature; "The Land of Opportunity" just didn't fit, I guess) is remarkable, and the wise traveler will take advantage of this...