Word: strikingly
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...only thing certain about Gingrich's successor is that he will strike a lower profile while he wrestles the same alligators. The problem for the party is that the very traditions and mechanisms of the House may prevent the Republicans from finding the leader they desperately need. No member of Congress with the experience, the stature or the chits to be a plausible candidate for Speaker resembles the kind of Republican leader that last week the voters signaled they liked. "We still need to prove that we can be conservative without being mean," said a G.O.P. moderate Senator. In Washington...
...sell the plan to Arab and European leaders. While they got a frosty public response, officials say the private message was a tacit green light. Result: PRESIDENT CLINTON may decide to hit Iraq without a U.N. vote, something that has bottled up attack plans in the past. The strike could come this week. Chances of a bombing were enhanced by the fact that the Pentagon has compiled a sobering list of targets, including many of the 63 missile sites, 120 chemical-weapons sites, 91 biological-weapons sites and more than 100-odd nuclear-weapons sites where Iraq may be engaged...
Nintendo is aiming to strike a blow at archrival Sony with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The puzzle-solving adventure game is the first to take full advantage of the superior graphics engine in Nintendo's 64-bit machine--an edge Sony's PlayStation countered with a wider selection of titles. Zelda, the fifth in a wildly popular series that left off in 1992, is expected to sell 2.5 million copies in its first six weeks...
Eleventh hour? Not quite. The U.S. appears unlikely to strike in Iraq before it has a massive force in position -- and that buildup may be just the thing to convince Saddam to back down. "The U.S. is planning the biggest operation against Iraq since the Gulf War, and you don't start that until you have all your ducks in order," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "You can't afford to start the game prematurely...
Washington wants Baghdad to believe it's about to start raining cruise missiles -- perhaps because fear of attack may impact more heavily on Saddam than an actual air strike would. That could be the thinking behind "military sources'" discussion of attack scenarios in the New York Times and a U.S. officer in Kuwait's loud hints that strikes are imminent...