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Marketing, like nature, abhors a vacuum, so the real question is what took them so long. In November Life Savers will introduce packages of bite-size "holes" in an attempt to add to its domination among hard candies. Only a killjoy would point out that they're not really the holes...
...possibility of it, is something that a nation has to talk itself into. America has had little time for that. The weeks since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait have been strange, almost a sort of hallucination. The usual lazy vacuum of high August abruptly filled with urgent, deadly business and martial noises. August 1990 seemed in a way like August 1914. The President's adamancy in sticking to his Maine vacation (the tense, almost angry flailing at golf balls, the powerboat Fidelity bucking out of harbor, a war getting organized by cellular phone) contributed to an air of the surreal...
...action stands in stark contrast to the vacillating, foot-dragging and facile reversals that characterize the leadership of many other Arab states. His decisiveness appeals to those Arabs who dream of pan- Arab unification and worship Arab dignity. They see in Saddam a modern-day answer to the leadership vacuum opened by the death of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. They also applaud his unwavering hostility toward those whom he perceives as enemies, especially Israel. "Saddam fulfills the ambitions of the Arab people," says Ahmed al-Yaamani, a businessman who like thousands of other Jordanians, registered last week with...
...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Soviet Union to fill the vacuum, and to do so together. Each superpower has formidable firepower within striking distance of Iraq and, in Saudi Arabia and Syria, a well-armed client state on Iraq's border. Even before the latest crisis, Moscow and Washington had begun to cooperate on other trouble spots: in Central America, southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Last week they joined diplomatic forces again, first at the United Nations, then at the meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. That was the bright spot in last week's scary news. Therein lies...