Word: cared
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Most people know only one thing about Kuwait: that George Bush has pledged to free it. Nevertheless, a pernicious notion has taken hold. Kuwait, it is alleged, was an arrogant, undemocratic handkerchief of a country no one would care about were it not for the oil beneath its sands. Is that view accurate? And if so, could the nation change after its liberation? Kuwaitis themselves have a vested interest in the answers to those questions -- but so does the rest of the world, and particularly the half-million allied troops massed for war in the gulf. For now that Saddam...
...Sabahs also instituted a cradle-to-grave welfare system. Education, health care and every public utility were provided free, or nearly so. And every Kuwaiti -- even the illiterate -- was guaranteed a government job for life, as intriguing a way of distributing the booty as was ever invented...
...centerpiece of New Kuwait, the key to everything its leaders envision, will be an unprecedented demographic make-over. As quickly as possible, Kuwait's population will be dramatically reduced, perhaps even halved. "How * do you get people to actually stop being lazy?" asks Ambassador Saud. "Why should anyone care about a real education, or making do with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only...
...keeping hordes of hungry Russians from heading west. The Germans have promised nearly $10 billion in aid, as well as enough meat, milk and medicine for 10 million people for a month. With a sense of irony and shame, war veterans in Leningrad find themselves awaiting CARE packages from Germany nearly 50 years after the city's population was virtually starved in the siege. Many believe Leningrad is suffering severe shortages these days at least partly because hard-line Communists are trying to undermine the democratically elected, reform-minded city council...
That's not a tough question. The Godfather Part III, is a gangster picture, after all, and Michael is the antihero with whom the series lives and dies. The true perplexer is whether filmgoers will care to see, or care about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers...