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...burnish the prestige of an American President sorely in need of a foreign-policy success. "It was a godsend," said a U.N. diplomat at the Security Council. Exulted a State Department official: "Saddam blinked, he turned tail, and if he tries it again, we're going to whack...
...disbanded at its peak in 1980, but Fagen resurfaced with two successful solo records in 1982 and 1993. Besides producing a few albums for other musicians (including Fagen), Becker stopped making records completely and holed up in his house in Maui. Now Becker's solo debut, 11 Tracks of Whack, is finally here, and it shows that he has not lost his touch...
...inner-most matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a mere bleat, his ear for catchy grooves gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz-pop fusion of, say, Yanni...
...whack Saddam and be done with him? As we should have done last time, right? As even Richard Nixon advised two months after the Gulf War ended in 1991: "If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein...
...opinion is that as a society, we have ourpriorities out of whack," Bates said. "I thinkpeople were very concerned about Rwanda--for awhile. And then it fell off the front page. Andthat's due to a lack of interest on the part ofnot everyone, but a lot of people. I don't think amajority of Americans care...