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Saddam's primary objective in a chemical strike would probably be to break | up, disorganize and delay charging forces. Troops cannot move fast in those awkward suits without getting overheated. Soldiers would have to pause frequently to sip water, kept in sealed containers, through straws attached to their masks. Communications are also complicated. The masks have a microphone attachment, but the sound is poor. And because it is difficult to tell one suited soldier from another, commanders are not easily recognized...
...Connor, 24, is one of the most gifted young rockers around, and it is awkward to have someone of her talent and exuberance tell the music business to stuff its highest award. "I don't agree with her rationale," says Joe Smith, president of Capitol-EMI Music, which is affiliated with O'Connor's record label, Chrysalis. "If Sinead doesn't like these shows, then that's her opinion. They get good ratings. This is not the International Red Cross...
UNLIKE MOST Harvard students, I will not celebrate Valentine's Day as if it were a wake. I will not complain about how hard it is to meet people, how awkward dates are or how often I have been rejected...
Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance, or at least the illusion...
...scholarship policy is especially awkward for Bush. It leaves the impression that he has been blindsided by a lower-echelon Education official -- ironically, a neo-conservative who happens to be black -- on an issue on which he has taken a firm and progressive personal stand. Since his college days, Bush has unstintingly contributed to the United Negro College Fund...