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...most authoritative Administration evaluation of the effects so far has come from CIA Director William Webster, who predicts that Iraq's military effectiveness will begin to decline between July and the end of the year as spare parts are exhausted. Iraq, he said, should run out of foreign-currency reserves by spring, "leaving it little cash with which to entice potential sanctions busters" to run the blockade...
Sanctions have had an enormously deleterious effect on Iraq, surely; according to most analysts, the Iraqi GNP will be halved by the embargo, and the lack of spare parts will likely ground a part of the country's air force without the United States firing a shot...
...limit yourself to a red from Colorado or one of Idaho's browns. What about Yukon Gold? Or Peruvian purple? We're talking serious potato now -- the bulked-out veggie that conquered the culinary world in 1990. At power luncheries, a favorite appetizer of the glitterati was a spare baked potato. But you could get it boiled, fried, duchessed and, most of all, mashed...
Sincerity and the classic notion of dulces et utiles (to instruct while delighting) were evident in unlikely places. For five nights, Americans were riveted to a spare, elegiac documentary about the Civil War. Its popularity denoted a certain retrospective spirit. Rap hip-hopped from violent rhetoric ) into its own didactic mode, rhythmically urging kids to study, pray and love themselves...
Cutler asked the court last week if he could give Gotti a change of clothes for his next court appearance. Apparently considering the matter too trivial, the judge made no ruling. But a spare $1,500 suit was seen in the don's cell. For Gotti, having to show up in a wrinkled suit might truly be cruel and unusual punishment...