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Sound coldhearted? Not as Israeli analysts see it. If Iraq dares to attack Israel now, Saddam Hussein will face the devastating wrath of both Israel and the U.S.-led forces massed in the region. But if Saddam survives and U.S. troops eventually depart, the analysts are convinced, Israel will one day have to fight alone against Baghdad. By then, Saddam may also have nuclear weapons at his disposal...
Although University policy strictly prohibits students from keeping animals, birds or reptiles in College dorms, a number of students interviewed this week said they had decided to risk the wrath of Harvard rather than forsake their furry companions...
...even after he separated from his wife, they did not sleep together. When he took her home at night, she felt that he wanted to lock her in. At 22 she had a brief romance with a man her own age but could not face her mentor's wrath. Her next young suitor was savvier. Paul Mejia, a member of the company, slowly made friends with Farrell before asking for her hand...
...pluperfect blueblood who won the Republican primary to oppose Silber in November, also played that card. His opponent, Steven Pierce, the house minority leader, matched Bellotti's shopworn look. The record turnout of Bay State voters demonstrated the public's tendency to turn on state officials with more wrath than it shows to members of Congress in troubled times. The culpability of federal lawmakers is more easily hidden. That explains why, in addition to Dukakis, nine other Governors are voluntarily retiring this year...
While wondering vaguely why hatred is not one of the Seven Deadly Sins (Is it covered under Wrath?) and why the Old Testament is so full of hate, I ; stared at the back of Nelson Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind...