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Expansions are always tricky endeavors. Oftentimes, they look like good ideas, but there can be a nasty backlash. Take Saddam Hussein. One day, the U.S. government is secretly sending him money. So he decides to have the Iraqi army start a farm club in Kuwait, and the next thing you...

Author: By Ioe Mathews, | Title: A Rocky Road for a Fishy Expansion | 4/10/1993 | See Source »

No one argued against the goal of feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Altitude | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Mazurka is also concerned with the instability of time and memory in the face of war and death. As one character remarks, "Poe was right: our thoughts are palsied and sere, our memories treacherous, sere and rusted like old knives...it must be in the nature of things." Memory is...

Author: By Ann M. Mikkelsen, | Title: Dance for the Dead | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

To win, Harvard must rid itself of the ghost of BU, which has beaten the Crimson three times in a row. To win, Harvard must somehow manage to use its unparalleled speed and skill in the ever-tricky Causeway institution. And to win, Harvard must first get past Northeastern.

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It All Comes Down to Monday | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

That position does not coincide with Boutros-Ghali's. He has said all along that the U.S. will have to disarm the warring clans in order to create a "secure environment." The U.S. ducked that tricky question in writing its vague rules of engagement, which leave it up to local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today, Somalia ... . . .Tomorrow, why not Bosnia? | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

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