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...result, sophomore goaltender Aaron Israel was untested for most of the game, as he faced only 19 shots for the game in posting his first collegiate shutout. At one point during the second period, one of Israel's teammates brought him a towel to wipe his face even though Yale hadn't sent a shot his way in several minutes...
...smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed to be taking sides in even the pettiest disputes among rival clans. Sergeant Kevin Anderson, a military-police officer, recalls sitting by in frustration as clan-vs.-clan arguments turned...
...also said he recognized legitimate fearsthat the Clinton plan could "wipe out privatepractice medicine" and that doctors could become"employees of insurance companies...
There is a lesson for the U.S. too: no globocop, however powerful, can step in to wipe out the hatreds that have made Bosnia, Somalia, Liberia, Kashmir, the Caucasus run with blood. U.S. power can be brought to bear successfully in conflicts like the Gulf War that are not principally about hate but about aggression, power, territorial acquisition -- the old game of nation states. The U.S. can cajole and encourage accommodation in lots of political, diplomatic, even military ways, but it cannot fundamentally change the minds of people determined to make their hatred for each other the reason for living...
...they figured the economic boom would keep income and salaries growing faster than the debt. Now that growth has slowed, the mentality has changed completely. The Clinton Administration is increasing taxes to fight the deficit, and consumers and corporations are frantically digging out of debt. "I encourage people to wipe the 1980s from their minds from the point of view of investment strategy, because the hyperinflation and high interest rates are gone," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for Economic Advisors, a consulting firm. Today's investment climate looks more like the 1950s and '60s, Sinai says, when inflation and interest...