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Faced with such choices last Saturday, the Clinton Administration was just about to pull the trigger on the least-bad option: a punishing raid. Navy Hawkeye radar-warning planes were surveying the skies as dusk fell over the Persian Gulf. Down below, ship crews donned combat helmets and gave final adjustments to Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-14 and F-18 warplanes readied to attack. Air Force F-16s lined up their high-speed antiradiation missiles to target Baghdad's air defenses. "We were cocked, loaded and ready," a top Pentagon offiCIAl said. H hour was 60 minutes away...
...George Bush's solicitor general, he suited up every month for Supreme Court combat, often arguing with cool conviction such passionate issues as flag burning and school prayer before the feisty Justices. Later he was paid more than $1 million a year to help corporate giants uphold their legal victories and reverse their losses. His greatest strength in court has always come from his obsessive preparation out of court. Last week he spent hours in moot sessions with his assistants, who assumed the role of committee Democrats, testing him on every aspect of the case...
...hurt. Geoffrey Bove, a pain researcher at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess hospital, recalls a woman whose skin became hypersensitive when she stepped into sunlight. Even a mild breeze triggered a painful reaction. Bove traced the cause to the St. John's wort that the woman was taking to combat mild depression. When she switched to a prescription drug, the painful burning vanished...
...year training course of would-be Navy pilots. In researching the book, Waller flew with aviators now stationed in the Persian Gulf. "I can imagine how their hearts are racing," says Waller, our State Department correspondent. "Catapulting off a carrier and landing on it are almost as dangerous as combat." Waller's previous book, Commandos, was based on his reporting on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the resulting Gulf War, which gave him an especially informed perspective as he covered last week's showdown with Saddam Hussein...
...combat these "disasters," Paglia advocated standardized testing and a rigorous back-to-the basics approach to primary education...