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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...
After a decade of military buildup and the expensive creation of a rapid- deployment Central Command to protect oil supplies from the gulf, Americans naturally wonder: Why not a military response? The answer is that Iraq is too strong. The country has 1 million battle-hardened men under arms, plus 500 combat aircraft and 5,500 tanks. The U.S. has no ground troops in the region; its presence is limited to six medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits...
...issue, because almost everyone in the book is indictable for some villainy. The question is how much trouble the hero, a semiadmirable Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer, will bring down on his head by his squabble with a syndicate wide-body named Bones. A lot, is the answer. Bones walked off with Chili's leather jacket, and Chili, quite reasonably, punched Bones out and shot a crease in his scalp...
...cinematic rape so acceptable and salable? Part of the answer is that during the past decade, middle-class theatergoers have been replaced by a rougher and more assertive audience whose tastes encourage Hindi filmmakers to resort to such exploitation. Another factor, observers believe, has its roots in the fabric of a society in which most marriages are still arranged and unmarried men even today have little access to women, let alone romance or sex. Ranjeet, 44, the popular Hindi movie villain who has enacted more than 350 rape scenes during a 19-year career, explains the phenomenon in terms...
...answer to the succession question is clear: it has already happened. Although Bradlee retains his title, day-to-day management of the Post has passed into the hands of managing editor Leonard Downie Jr., 48. Bradlee confirms that Downie is the chosen heir. His performance during six years as managing editor has provided an answer to the inevitable question about how Downie compares with Bradlee: the cautious and bureaucratic Downie would not even want to match the older editor's riverboat-gambler style. In contrast to Bradlee's instinct for the jugular, Downie is such a stickler for down...