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...troops likely won't be part of an invasion, TIME's Thompson says, the operations-level staff at the Pentagon is eager to draw a "fig leaf" of international cover over their all-U.S. invasion cast, Persian Gulf-style. If force is used, he says, look for a token contingent from Canada...
This summer proved to be chockedfull of some wonderful filmmaking. By the same token, it had some real losers. Below is a brief list accompanied by our abbreviated opinions. Make up your mind, since exams, or just your summer, are over, and go support and Hollywood monolith. Here goes...
Later that day, Zhirinovsky made a token visit to a factory, walking through a deserted mill with endless rows of silent weaving machines. As a German television crew watched, he delivered one of his patented anti-Western tirades. "This factory stands idle because of Western interference in our affairs!" he shouted, shaking his finger directly at the German camera. "You have worked to ruin this country...
...fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington, and he saw how lonely I was in Hollywood. I'd never wanted to be in show business; I'd wanted to be a schoolteacher...
There are substantive differences in the modalities of the two types of mandates. An individual mandate alleviates the problems associated with the need to switch insurance plans when one switches jobs--for example, people locked into jobs by pre-existing conditions. By the same token, it makes it harder for people to purchase insurance in groups--the firm is a natural purchasing group...