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When Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990, the UN Security Council quickly passed Resolution 661, imposing a full trade embargo on Iraq that would only be lifted once Iraq had withdrawn. However, after the US-led alliance pulverized the Iraqi army and drove H out of Kuwait, the sanctions remained in place. What began as a seemingly mild punishment for a violation of international law has culminated in one of the worst man-made humanitarian disasters of all time...
...Such prejudice is commonplace. Many Africans see homosexuality as simply un-African, a custom introduced by European settlers and practiced by tourists. When two gay male tourists were suspected of arranging a wedding last year in Lamu, a coastal town in Kenya, a mob of 2,000 hounded them, forcing them to hide in a hall of a museum where the ceremony was to take place. "In African culture the act is forbidden," says Philip Mwangi, a security guard at a Nairobi supermarket. "People get angry when they hear about it. Why should a man marry another man when...
...battle will sound a lot like the campaign - Republicans will call smaller, targeted tax cuts un-American, and Democrats will call big, across-the-board ones unfairly skewed to the rich. And with the Senate split down the middle and the House close to it, Bush will need all the help...
...tickle the goatees of college-radio deejays everywhere. The U.S. music press has started taking complimentary notice of the Chicks, and the two albums they released last year, Chicks on Speed Will Save Us All! (on their label Chicks on Speed Records) and The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases (on the American label K Records), have received good to glowing reviews on both sides of the Atlantic...
...like a party as much as the next guy, but I think this inauguration business is a little overdone. It all smacks of a most un-republican longing for some kind of Princess Diana-ish royal spectacle...