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...Rising Tide...
...Middle East and Europe? In March, as he did 12 years earlier, Cheney set out on a trip to the Middle East to rally support for an aggressive American policy against Iraq. The trip didn't go well. Cheney's hosts wanted to talk about the rising tide of violence in Israel and the occupied territories, not about Iraq. If there was going to be an international effort to disarm Saddam or remove him from power, it would have to be led by the man who, up to now, had steadfastly resisted the neoconservative case--Colin Powell...
...forces being welcomed into Baghdad by cheering crowds, like those that had greeted the liberators of Paris in 1944. But Saddam may be nurturing a World War II image of his own - the brutal battle for Stalingrad that broke the back of Hitler's offensive and decisively turned the tide of the war. (Saddam, being something of a student of Stalin, may also be encouraged by the fact that although Russians loathed their dictator, they fought bravely to defend their country from invasion - even if sometimes it was the guns pointed at their backs, rather than patriotic heroism, that prevented...
Keaton Zucker scored on a breakaway midway through the period to keep Brown within two goals, and the Bears remained competitive until McAuliffe’s shorthanded goal at 16:24 of the second period shifted the tide for good...
...with the voice of 6,500 undergraduates. He and his nine colleagues—including Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is co-authoring A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century with Kirby—may just have turned the tide against the administration’s ill-conceived plan. And they should feel proud for having had the courage to do so. The student body is surely proud of them for standing up for their principles. And, just maybe, students and enlightened Faculty can band together to save shopping period...