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...figured prominently at times in rumors that the military was plotting a coup. Gromov has denied the possibility of such a move, and he downplayed suggestions that his combat experience alone earned him his new job. But the connection was too evident to ignore. "Gromov is a reliable trigger puller," says William Odom, a former head of the U.S. National Security Agency. "They put him in Interior Ministry ((because)) they can rely on him to put down demonstrations...
...that nothing short of war is likely to nudge Saddam out of Kuwait. "The Bush Administration ought to have more faith in its own diplomatic skills," said Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd. "Saddam's pledge to release hostages is pretty good evidence that you don't have to pull the trigger to get his attention...
Researchers have long known that certain poisons can produce so-called dominant lethal effects in men. In these cases, the sperm is so damaged that it fails either to fertilize the egg or to produce a viable embryo. But little was known about whether toxins could trigger more insidious defects in the sperm -- problems subtle enough to allow the birth of the child but still harmful enough to produce serious malformations. Perhaps the most disturbing recent report concerns lead, which had been shown to impair fetal growth when mothers were exposed while pregnant. At a meeting last month...
...SADDAM Hussein's rhetoric becomes more bellicose and President Bush's trigger-finger grows itchier, many Harvard students have come to realize that "war" is more than an abstraction to be debated on op-ed pages. War means that someone will fight and die, and a growing number of Harvard students are troubled by the possibility that "someone" could be them...
...Fairbanks' Zorro. Immortally, he is a man with a hero's moves but not a hero's looks. He is afflicted with a nose that is kindly described as heroic, and unkindly (and more commonly) thought to be simply grotesque -- and hugely comical. It accounts for his hair-trigger temperament. It also accounts for his melancholy, because it prevents him from speaking his love for his cousin Roxane (spunky, winsome Anne Brochet). Until, that is, she becomes enamored of handsome, tongue-tied Christian (Vincent Perez), who employs Cyrano to speak for him in letters, and from the shadows beneath...