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...policy questions - Iraq and Israel. Despite their hostility to Saddam Hussein, the Saudis oppose a U.S. attack on Iraq for fear that the resulting instability would pose a threat to the region far greater than that of the Iraqi dictator - and could even see their own increasingly fragile regime swept aside by anti-Western extremists. They haven't only demurred from allowing the U.S. to invade Iraq from their territory; they've actively rallied the Arab world against such an attack, choreographing Iraq's diplomatic rehabilitation among its neighbors at the April summit of the Arab League in Beirut...
...wings--of birds and mosquitoes--the West Nile virus is spreading with remarkable speed. Three years after making its first U.S. appearance, in New York, it has spread to 33 other states. This year, after being largely confined to a thick band of East Coast states, the virus has swept rapidly west, reaching as far as South Dakota and Texas. Last week it struck with a vengeance in Louisiana, infecting at least 58 residents and killing four--prompting Governor Mike Foster to declare a statewide emergency...
...should have swept the Yankees. Bostonians should have been able to celebrate their team pulling even with the Yankees atop the American League East standings. But an extraordinary course of events instead gave the Yanks a comfortable four-game cushion in the division...
...word for hell. It's also one of those curiously ironic names 19th century settlers gave to odd corners of the American landscape. But Sam Mendes' darkly imaginative and powerfully enfolding movie Road to Perdition offers a third, more ironic definition: it's a kind of paradise, a sun-swept beach, complete with a playful, welcoming dog, that a man and his son struggle against malevolent forces to attain--and then lose in an instant...
Harvard, as usual, did not compete at the national championships this year in order to train for the Harvard-Yale regatta, and as has been usual as of late, Harvard swept every event...