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...producing areas around Kirkuk and Mosul. In the end, all they got was a reaffirmation of the current arrangement, deferring future status to a new constitution. Analysts are expecting that Kurdish leaders on the IGC may have a tough time selling that to their increasingly independence-minded base...
...Seussian SNAFU of all is "Rumors" (Freleng, December 43), which begins with Geisel doggerel: "Twas a bright sunny day / With the air fresh and clean. / Not a rumor was stirring / Except in the latrine." There, SNAFU misinterprets another soldier's joke about a bombing as a warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth shaped...
...contest, which drew a substantial Crimson fan base, was held at the renowned Bollettieri Tennis Academy, an opportunity springing from a 30-year friendship between Fish and Nick Bollettieri...
...truth in it. America is a nation of vast economic, educational and ethnic disparities. The Yankees are the real America. Where else can whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics play happily together except on a team worth $180 million? If I were an Inuit second baseman with a good on-base percentage, I'd get my resume to the Bronx as soon as possible...
...Democratic establishment, but that's the problem. Kerry isn't credible as a true populist. Federal records show that he has taken more money from lobbyists than any other Senator over the past 15 years. Those facts only confirm what many of us feel: anybody but Kerry. The Democratic base is so stirred up about getting Bush out of office, it is in danger of losing its head over a relatively unexamined candidate who only claims to represent the true interests of the people. Despite what Kerry wants voters to think, he is not "the Real Deal." DARCY CROSMAN Richmond...