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...enforce a complete demilitarized zone. A hair-trigger exclusion zone, where every tank and artillery piece that sneaks in constitutes a violation, would allow Saddam to keep U.S. troops busy with cat-and-mouse games or, worse, force them to turn a blind eye. Furthermore, creating a military vacuum below the 32nd parallel could lead to a collapse of Baghdad's authority in the territory and possibly invite an incursion by Iran -- an even less appetizing prospect...
Amid the drama surrounding the junta leader's exit, few remarked on the yawning vacuum of police power he left behind. That absence only deepens the need for American involvement, despite White House protestations that the U.S. ! commitment is limited and temporary. From the Haitian capital to the remotest corners of the countryside, civil authority has melted away. Even with Aristide on the way home, U.S. soldiers were forced to immerse themselves in the minutiae of Haitian daily life...
...would have imagined that it would be the pleasantly vibrating sound of the large vacuum that shoos away the leaves in Kirkland's courtyard? Fortunately for me, I can sit in my bed, stare at my very decorated ceiling, and meditate to the rhythm of the vacuum thing until my first class...
...which is a lot of pleasure in a country this big. The happiest ones are the monogamous couples, married or not. Despite jobs and careers that eat away at their evenings and weekends and nasty whiny children who dog their footsteps and despite the need to fix meals and vacuum the carpet and pay bills, these couples still manage to encounter each other regularly in a lustful, inquisitive way and throw their clothes in the corner and do thrilling things in the dark and cry out and breathe hard and afterward lie sweaty together feeling extreme pleasure...
This also isn't a trash-the-band column (although I might write one when the band starts the "goalie sieve-funnel-vacuum-black hole-you just suck" chant in the middle of a close hockey game...